Judge OKs Anthropic's Use of Copyrighted Books in AI Training. That's Bad News for Creators

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

Judge’s “Fair Use” Ruling In Favor Of Anthropic Is Likely Just The Start Of Lengthy Copyright Battles Over AI Training Models

A judge’s decision that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models is a “fair use” is likely only the start of lengthy litigation to resolve one of the most hotly contested questions over the latest tech revolution. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s use of the books was “exceedingly transformative,” one of the factors courts have used in determining whether the use of protected works without authorizatio…

US Judge sides with AI firm Anthropic over copyright issue

A US court has ruled Anthropic was not breaching copyright rules when it trained its AI model on books.

Tory peer Liam Booth-Smith takes job at AI firm he encountered at No 10

Rishi Sunak’s ex-chief of staff lands role at Anthropic, which has memorandum of understanding on working with governmentA former chief of staff to Rishi Sunak who was made a Conservative peer has taken a job as “external affairs” chief at an artificial intelligence company that he encountered while working at No 10.Liam Booth-Smith, who entered the House of Lords last year, has joined Anthropic, which recently signed a memorandum of understandi…

Amazon-backed Anthropic wins key ruling in AI copyright lawsuit filed by authors

Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, the judge said Anthropic made "fair use" of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model.

Anthropic wins key AI copyright case, but remains on the hook for using pirated books

Anthropic didn't violate U.S. copyright law when the AI company used millions of legally purchased books to train its chatbot, judge rules.