"This is a free license allowing use of the work for any purpose without payment. Obviously, the right thing to do is protect computing freedom: share complete training inputs with every user of the LLM, together with the complete model, training configuration settings, and the accompanying software source code."
"Therefore, we urge Anthropic and other LLM developers that train models using huge datasets downloaded from the Internet to provide these LLMs to their users in freedom."
"Along with many other copyright holders, the FSF received a settlement notice as part of the copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic. In settling the class action lawsuit, Anthropic agreed in September to create a $1.5 billion fund to compensate authors whose works it had used to train its models without seeking or securing permission."
The Free Software Foundation received notification of a settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright lawsuit, where Anthropic agreed to establish a $1.5 billion fund to compensate authors whose works were used to train its AI models without authorization. The FSF identified that Sam Williams's "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software," published under the GNU Free Documentation License, was included in Anthropic's training datasets. The FSF argues that Anthropic should provide complete training inputs, model weights, configuration settings, and source code to users in accordance with free software principles. The FSF acknowledged lacking resources for extended legal battles but emphasized that AI developers should respect computing freedom by sharing their complete training materials and models with users.
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