Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday.

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Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence assistant Claude was “exceedingly transformative and was a fair use,” a federal judge ruled.

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A judge has sided with Anthropic in a copyright case that determined that the company training its AI models on purchased books is fair use.

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While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.

The judge also ruled fair use law allowed Anthropic to take purchased physical books and scan them into a digital “research library” that can be used to train its models.