A federal judge found AI company Anthropic's training of its chatbot, Claude, on copyrighted books to be fair use, deeming it "quintessentially transformative." While the company did not violate copyright law in this aspect, it still faces trial concerning how it acquired these works, specifically from online shadow libraries of pirated copies. The authors suing Anthropic allege these actions amount to large-scale theft. Despite later attempts to legally purchase books, the judge stated that this does not erase previous liability for using stolen material.
"Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic's (AI large language models) trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them - but to turn a hard corner and create something different," Alsup wrote.
"That Anthropic later bought a copy of a book it earlier stole off the internet will not absolve it of liability for the theft."
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