Transformative Training | Piracy Liability | AI Precedent In a split ruling with sweeping implications, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled this week that Anthropic’s Claude model lawfully trained on copyrighted books under the fair-use doctrine, analogizing training AI to aspiring authors “learning from reading” (washingtonpost.com). However, Anthropic still faces trial
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Reddit Sues Anthropic: Data Ownership, AI Training, and the Battle for Platform Control
In a lawsuit with potentially industry-defining consequences, Reddit has sued AI startup Anthropic, alleging that it unlawfully scraped and used Reddit’s user-generated content to train its large language models — including Claude. Filed in California Superior Court on June 4, 2025, Reddit’s complaint accuses Anthropic of over 100,000 unauthorized data access