Newsletter Issue 55 (Case Report): The court draws a line between AI training and the way you build your dataset. You cannot build AI with stolen books and call it innovation.
Does this suggest courts may start scrutinising AI training methods, regardless of what the model produces? Output alone might no longer be the only test for infringement.
The judge did not need evidence of infringing responses from Claude to find that Anthropic may have crossed a legal line. Instead, the allegation that the company used unlicensed, illegally sourced copies was enough to keep the lawsuit alive.
Does this suggest courts may start scrutinising AI training methods, regardless of what the model produces? Output alone might no longer be the only test for infringement.
The judge did not need evidence of infringing responses from Claude to find that Anthropic may have crossed a legal line. Instead, the allegation that the company used unlicensed, illegally sourced copies was enough to keep the lawsuit alive.
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