Stanford professors sue Anthropic, saying the $1.5 billion settlement shortchanges authors
Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
A federal judge ruled Anthropic illegally pirated books by over 10 Stanford professors to train Claude, leading to a $1.5 billion settlement for nearly 500,000 works. But Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee opted out, filing Cruz v. Anthropic to seek up to $150,000 per infringed work—far above the roughly $3,000 per work in Bartz. Wolff calls unpaid training “a form of slave labor” and warns young writers will struggle.
To put me to work that way, without remittance, is a form of slave labor.