US judge allows using pirated books to train AI

A federal judge has sided with the AI company Anthropic in its practice of training a chatbot on copyrighted books without permission from the authors.

In a decision with the potential to set legal precedent, District Court Judge William Asup ruled on Monday that Anthropic’s training of its artificial intelligence creation Claude with millions of pirated books was allowed under a “fair use” doctrine in a law called the Copyright Act.