Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing
Legal Analyses

Bartz v. Anthropic PBC

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  • Savannah Aleksic
The George Washington Journal of Ethics in Publishing: Volume 4, Issue 1.

Published 2026-10-21

How to Cite

Aleksic, S. (2026). Bartz v. Anthropic PBC. GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing, 4(1), 83–86. Retrieved from https://gwjep.org/index.php/gwjep/article/view/41

Abstract

Everyone has a different stance on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially as it continues to ebb its way into every facet of our online existence. AI uses a learning model designed to “learn from experience, identify patterns, and make decisions based on large volumes of data.”1 Our topic of discussion today is Anthropic, an AI startup company founded in 2021 by several former employees of OpenAI. The case came about when a group of authors sued Anthropic in August 2024 in a class-action lawsuit, claiming that it illegally pirated copies of their books from Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) as tools to train its AI model.

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