US judge rules Anthropic’s use of books for AI training is fair use: All you need to know
A US federal judge has ruled that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence system falls under fair use, but found the company in breach of copyright law for storing pirated digital copies of millions of titles. The decision, issued late on Monday by District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, marks a significant development in ongoing legal battles over how AI companies use copyrighted material.
The lawsuit, brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, alleges that Anthropic used pirated versions of their works without permission or compensation to develop its Claude large language model.
