US EditionAnthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI
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Pirated Swedish books are being used to train AI models abroad. The Swedish Publishers Association is now considering legal action, writes SvD.
Meta and Anthropic are rejoicing. Training AI models on copyrighted books may be legal, according to two recent US court cases. But the battle between AI companies and the book industry is far from over.
Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI
Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw…
Anthropic, which used protected works to drive its IA Claude, was tried by the San Francisco court on two points: the use of legally acquired books was considered fair, but the retention of digitized versions from pirated books could incur liability for copyright infringement. This influential decision could impact other disputes in the AI sector.
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