Anthropic did not breach copyright when training AI on books without permission, court rules

Judge says firm made ‘fair use’ of literature but that storage of pirated books in central library constituted infringement

A US judge has ruled that a tech company’s use of books to train its artificial intelligence system – without permission of the authors – did not breach copyright law.

A federal judge in San Francisco said Anthropic made “fair use” of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model.

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