Anthropic Pirates SEVEN MILLION Books, Faces HUGE Damages (Bartz v. Anthropic)
August 11, 2025·9K views·594 likes·207 comments
Anthropic AI's use of SEVEN MILLION BOOKS to train its Large Language Models (LLMs) has been ruled a FAIR USE in a huge win for AI LLM providers.
BUT, obtaining the SEVEN MILLION BOOKS via bittorrent illegally is not a Fair Use - and the damages will be a huge loss.
#Copyright #AI #fairuse
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00:00 - Introduction
02:05 - Judge Alsup's Order on Fair Use
03:54 - The Piracy
08:49 - Fair Use
11:29 - Fair Use Transformation
16:27 - The Piracy was not Fair Use
23:24 - Class Certifcation
27:46 - The Certified Class
28:15 - Leonard Thoughts
30:52 - Damages
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