Anthropic spent "many millions of dollars" buying used print books, then stripped off the bindings, cut the pages, and scanned them into digital files. VCG/VCG via Getty Images Anthropic bought, cut, and scanned millions of used books for its "research library." The company also downloaded over 7 million pirated books, the judge found. The judge wrote that training Claude on copyrighted books it had purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't. To build AI chatbot Claude, Anthropic "destructively s...