Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright theft

SAN FRANCISCO, California: A group of authors have sued a San Francisco-based company, which called itself a more responsible and safety-focused AI developer, for copyright infringement of pirated books.

The authors alleged startup Anthropic committed "large-scale theft" in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books.

While competitor OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, has been facin