A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in a major copyright ruling, declaring that artificial intelligence developers can train on published books without authors’ consent

In his ruling, Alsup claimed that, by training its LLM without the authors’ permission, Anthropic did not infringe on copyrighted materials because the work it produced was, in his eyes, original. He claimed that the company’s algorithms have…

The facts of each case are different, and each will be decided on its own merits. In the Anthropic case, one of its founders, Ben Mann, downloaded millions of pirated digital copi