The Anthropic website and mobile phone app are shown in this photo, in New York, July 5, 2024. — AP Photo/Richard Drew, File
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.
But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them from online "shadow libraries” of pirated copies.
