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Anthropic's copying makes it a 'modern-day Napster,' book authors tell US judge

By Amy Miller ( October 10, 2024, 22:30 GMT | Insight) -- Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is a “modern-day Napster," a group of authors suing the company for illegally downloading versions of their books told a US judge in California. Anthropic countered that the alleged copying was used to train the company's large language model Claude and create new text, making it transformative and "classic" fair use under copyright law. Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is a “modern day” Napster, a group of authors suing the company for illegally downloading versions of their books told a US judge in San Francisco, California, today....

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