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Anthropic fined $1.5B for pirating Stanford professors' books
What is Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books?
A federal judge ruled that Anthropic scraped the copyrighted works of over ten Stanford professors to train its Claude language model. The settlement directs $1.5 billion to the authors and publishers, while barring future unauthorized training data collection.
Who it is for
Authors, AI developers, and policy watchers should note the legal risk of using unlicensed text for model training.