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A US judge has ruled that using books to train artificial intelligence, AI, software is not a violation of US copyright law.
The decision came out of a lawsuit brought last year against AI firm Anthropic by three authors.
They included best-selling mystery thriller writer Andrea Bartz, who accused it of stealing her work to train its Claude AI model and build a multi-billion dollar business.
In his ruling, Judge William Alsup said Anthropic’s use of the authors’ books was exceedingly transformative and therefore allowed under US law.
But he rejected Anthropic’s request to dismiss the case, ruling the firm would have to stand trial over its use of pirated copies to build its library of material.
Anthropic, a firm backed by Amazon and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, could face up to US$150,000 in damages per copyrighted work.
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