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Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors for using pirated books…

…but the ruling clarifies that AI training itself is not copyright infringement – a major legal win for AI labs.

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Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors for using pirated books, but the ruling clarifies that AI training itself is not copyright infringement – a major legal win for AI labs.