Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

Let’s say my AI company is training an AI on woodworking books and at the end, it will describe in text and wireframe drawings (but not the original or identical photos) how to do a particular task.

If I didn’t license all the books I trained on, am I not depriving the publisher of revenue, given people will pay me for the AI instead of buying the book?

If you paid a human author to do the same you’d be breaking no law. Learning is the point of books existing in the first place.