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Anthropic tells US judge evidence shows copying books to train AI is fair use

By Amy Miller ( March 28, 2025, 23:28 GMT | Insight) -- Anthropic’s copying of authors’ books to train its large language model, Claude, is “transformative in the extreme,” and a US judge should find the practice is fair without going to trial, the artificial intelligence company argued in a motion for summary judgment. Using books to train Claude serves “a fundamentally different purpose from the books themselves,” Anthropic argued, and authors haven’t produced any evidence they’ve been deprived of a market to sell their work because it doesn't exist. “The immense benefits that Claude provides to the public have not caused a single person to forgo buying any one of Plaintiffs’ books,” Anthropic said.Anthropic’s copying of authors’ books to train its large language model, Claude, is “transformative in the extreme,” and a US judge should find the practice is fair without going to trial, the artificial intelligence company argued in a motion for summary judgment....

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