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Anthropic illegally trained Claude with Stanford professors’ books
63Fresh Voice
Student reporting that adds Stanford authors' voices and their opt-out lawsuit to familiar Bartz v. Anthropic background.
What it adds
Localizes the Bartz settlement story to Stanford faculty, with interviews explaining why some opted out and sued separately in Cruz v. Anthropic.
Claim by claim
- 4 the author's own
- 1 an AI would say
- 2 known elsewhere
- 6 common knowledge
Its strongest original claims
- Anthropic pirated works of over 10 Stanford professors to train Claude, including Wolff, Verghese, Lee, Mason, Rao and Strober.
- Judge Alsup ruled in Bartz v. Anthropic that Anthropic could not pirate books to build a permanent central library.
- Wolff and 27 other authors say the settlement is insufficient; Wolff calls uncompensated use a form of slave labor.
- Ten of Wolff's publications were used for AI training without permission.
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