Post by Hudson Gavin Martin

Is training an LLM no different to using books to teach a child to write well? Two recent U.S. court decisions - Bartz v Anthropic and Kadrey v Meta - have taken sharply different views on this point. The evidence in one case led to a $1.5 billion payout to authors, while the authors' copying claims were dismissed entirely in the other, under the U.S. "fair use" defence. Where should the line be drawn between innovation and infringement? Read more in this article by Caitlin Hadlee and Melissa Yan.