Anthropic bought, cut, and scanned millions of used books for its "research library."
The company also downloaded over 7 million pirated books, the judge found.
The judge wrote that training Claude on copyrighted books it had purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't.
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Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said
Training Claude on copyrighted books it purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't, the judge ruled.
