Legal Dispute Over Anthropic's Use of Used and Pirated Books for AI Training
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Summary
Anthropic purchased millions of used print books to train an AI named Claude and also downloaded over 7 million pirated books, leading to a legal dispute over fair use and piracy.
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· 1 pulledAnthropic spent 'many millions of dollars' buying used print books, then stripped off the b
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