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Evidence of unfair use: AI books squeeze human authors out of the market
Anthropic's AI training using millions of used books raised copyright concerns. The market impact of AI-generated content is a key issue.
TL;DR
- Anthropic scanned millions of used books for AI training, destroying the originals, a practice deemed fair use by a federal judge.
- The US Copyright Office previously stated that AI-generated content competing with original works may go beyond fair use.
- New research analyzed over 14,000 ebooks and found a substantial amount of AI-written text.
- The market for AI-written books exploded, but the overall reader spending did not grow proportionally, crowding the market.
- Books with no detected AI text lost market share as AI books proliferated.
- This research suggests AI models do financially harm creators whose work they learned from, contradicting previous claims by AI companies.