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> That's why Anthropic switched to scanning paper books.

After they threw away all the tainted data from the pirated books, right?

No, because the judge ruled that the training was fair use and the model itself wasn't infringing.

That sounds pretty applicable to this case, right? _Access_ to the Claude is illicit, but distilling is not. Distilling is fair use.

Probably yes. Maybe that's one of the reasons they're not suing them.

Yes, as part of the settlement

Have you a source for that? Because everyhthing I've read tells me that they paid out a settlement but no mention of deleting the training data or the models that were tainted, e.g. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/05/anthropic...

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