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'Norwegian Wood' Was Also Used as AI Training Data—Why a $1.5 Billion Settlement by a U.S. AI Giant Leaves Japanese Authors with Nothing

U.S. AI company Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit over using pirated books for AI training. The pirated dataset included works by Japanese authors, such as Haruki Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood,' but the settlement does not compensate them.

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2024-08-01
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Anthropic
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Claude
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'Norwegian Wood' Was Also Used as AI Training Data—Why a $1.5 Billion Settlement by a U.S. AI Giant Leaves Japanese Authors with Nothing — Wayward Fowl