USStanford professors and authors file separate suit against Anthropic: "settlement pays about $3,000 a work, we want up to $150,000"

More than 10 Stanford professors and authors are taking legal action against Anthropic over use of their copyrighted works in AI training, The EDU Ledger reported Oct. 28, citing The Stanford Daily.

English professors Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee opted out of the roughly $1.5 billion Bartz v. Anthropic class settlement (about 500,000 works) in May and joined a separate suit, Cruz v. Anthropic. It seeks a jury trial and statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work, versus about $3,000 per work under the settlement. Plaintiffs allege Anthropic downloaded books from shadow libraries including LibGen and PiLiMi.

Judge William Alsup ruled in Bartz that building a permanent pirated library could create liability but that training on legally acquired books was fair use. "They're using my work without paying for it," Wolff said.