A U.S. federal judge has ruled in favor of AI company Anthropic, allowing it to continue training its chatbot using copyrighted books without prior consent from the authors.
In a potentially precedent-setting decision, District Court Judge William Alsup determined on Monday that Anthropic’s use of millions of unauthorized books to train its AI model, Claude, falls under the “fair use” provision of the Copyright Act.
“The use of the contested books to train Claude and its earlier versions was highly transformative and qualifies as fair use,” Alsup stated in his ruling.
