Anthropic downloaded over 7M pirated books to train Claude, a judge said

4 pyman 3 7/7/2025, 9:20:38 AM businessinsider.com ↗

Comments (3)

pyman · 33m ago
Anthropic's cofounder, Ben Mann, downloaded million copies of books from Library Genesis in 2021, fully aware that the material was pirated.

Stealing is stealing. Let's stop with the double standards.

damnesian · 24m ago
oh well, the product has a cute name and will make someone a billionaire, let's just give it the green light. who cares about copyright in the age of AI?
neo__ · 26m ago
Hopefully they were all good books at least.