A group of authors is suing AI startup Anthropic, claiming it committed ‘large-scale theft’ by training its chatbot on pirated copies of copyrighted books. Based in San Francisco and founded by ex-OpenAI bosses, Anthropic made being the more trustworthy version of ChatGPT a central part of its marketing efforts around its chatbot, Claude, promising to deliver “reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.” The company even made a point of calling for safety-focused AI proposals. That image has been somewhat shattered by the lawsuit filed on Monday, August 19 in a San Francisco federal court, alleging that Anthropic has taught its AI product using libraries of pirated works.