AI and Fair Use- Anthropic AI case

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California ruled Monday that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI model training of its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books was legal under U.S. copyright law if it had purchased those books. Anthropic won its “fair use” argument. However, Anthropic may be liable for billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books for its digital library. This District Court decision on the” fairness of taking copyrighted material to train generative artificial intelligence is a mixed outcome for tech companies and content creators that could prompt both parties to seek coexistence, according to attorneys, with the judge concluding that while the technology is “spectacularly” transformative, using pirated material is inexcusable.”