I've reported on various lawsuits being filed against different AI maker (many of which seem to center around training on copyrighted materials). Harry Guinness has done more expansive research on the subject and notes, "Lawsuits arrived almost as soon as generative AI programs debuted. The consequences could catch up to them next year." A few he notes that I had not heard about include: "Three music publishers-Universal Music, Concord, and ABKCO-are suing Anthropic (makers of Claude) for illegally scraping their musicians' song lyrics to train its models." and "In perhaps the most eclectic case, a proposed class-action lawsuit is being brought against Google for misuse of personal information and copyright infringement by eight anonymous plaintiffs, including two minors. According to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco in July, among the content the plaintiffs allege that Google misused are books, photos from dating websites, Spotify playlists, and TikTok videos." 2024 could be the year that many of these suits hit the courts and get decided. Read more at POPULAT SCIENCE: Generative AI could face its biggest legal tests in 2024
Published December 8, 2023.