Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.

A federal judge ruled late Monday that Anthropic, an AI company, did not break the law when it trained its chatbot Claude on copyrighted books. But the company will still face a trial over how it first got millions of books — by downloading them from “shadow libraries” like Library Genesis.

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books