“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
Summary
Ars Technica covers Sony and other music publishers’ lawsuit alleging Anthropic pirated millions of books to train Claude, highlighting internal Anthropic chats that praise piracy and the alleged use of LibGen and PiLiMi. The piece discusses the publishers’ claims about training data provenance, potential fair-use defenses, and calls for greater transparency in training data sources and methods.