Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said

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Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said

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Anthropic spent "many millions of dollars" buying used print books, then stripped off the bindings, cut the pages, and scanned them into digital files.
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Anthropic bought, cut, and scanned millions of used books for its "research library."
The company also…

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