AI trained on BOOKS? Judge rules it's FAIR USE!

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1. 0:00What the judge returned was a verdict that basically said this. The act of embedding a book into a transformer model is a transformative
2. 0:12act. It's a It It's a a transformative act meaning that you're substantially changing the original work into something, you know, different.
3. 0:23And in that context, transforming those books into knowledge, into tokens, is covered under fair use. But, what the judge said was,
4. 0:40"If you didn't pay for the books in the first place, then you're liable." So So basically, if Anthropic had paid for
5. 0:52the millions of books that they trained Claude on, then it's fair use. They bought the books. They did the training. It's a
6. 1:01transformative work. And sub substantially transformative enough that there is um there's no infringement cuz it's fair use.
7. 1:12However, Anthropic still had copies of the books that they got off pirate sites, >> Watch the full replay at community.thesalon.ai.