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Training AI on Copyrighted Books: It's the Download That Bites

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Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? After the Anthropic case, the honest answer is that the training was ruled lawful and the downloading was what cost $1.5 billion. That split is the entire story, and most coverage flattened it into "AI companies lose." TechCrunch's piece Is it le…

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  1. 2026-08-24 16:16 · DEV Community — AI
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