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AII-1001-36921
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Anthropic sued over AI chatbot training on copyrighted books

Authors sued Anthropic after discovering their copyrighted books were used to train the Claude AI chatbot without permission or compensation.

28 September 2025 Β· Anthropic Β· Intellectual property and appropriation
28 September 2025

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AII-1001-36921
Quick facts
Category
Intellectual property and appropriation
Country
United States
Date
28 September 2025
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Raidu Incident Detection

What happened

Anthropic's AI chatbot was trained on copyrighted books without author consent, leading to a lawsuit against the company.

Classification

Category
Intellectual property and appropriation
Industry
Media, social platforms and marketing
Country
United States
Harm status
Actual harm
Intent
Unknown
Timing
Post-deployment
Harmed
Business
Failure modes
Training data misuse
Consequences
Litigation
AI systems
Claude

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