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Japanese book wholesaler admits selling books to Anthropic

Original: Japan book wholesaler admits selling books to Anthropic: industry source

A Japanese book wholesaler has confirmed, according to an industry source, that it sold books to Anthropic, the US artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot. The admission sheds light on how AI firms source published material, and is likely to fuel debate in Japan's publishing industry over copyright and unlicensed use of books for training AI models.

Why now: It touches on the ongoing controversy over AI companies using copyrighted books for training data without authors' consent.

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• Japan book wholesaler admits selling books to Anthropic: industry source · Japan Today
• Japan book wholesaler admits selling books to Anthropic: industry source · Japan Wire by Kyodo News

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