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US Judge Backs Using Copyrighted Books To Train AI

A ruling by a US judge that Anthropic, led by CEO Dario Amodei, did not violate copyright law by training its artificial intelligence on pirated books could be cited by other firms defending themselves in similar lawsuits filed by authors (Credit: AFP)

A US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission, a decision with the potential to set a major legal precedent in AI deployment.

District Court Judge William Alsup ruled on Monday that the company's training of its Claude AI models with books bought or pirated was allowed under the "fair use" doctrine in the US Copyright Act.

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