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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt O'Brien

Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

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In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.

But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them from online “shadow libraries” of pirated copies.

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