Anthropic Trained Claude on 500k Pirated Books, Settled for $1.5B, Then Lobbies to Block Chinese Labs from Using Its Outputs

Anthropic downloaded 500,000 copyrighted books for training, got fair use ruling, paid $1.5B to settle piracy claims. Now CEO Dario Amodei calls Chinese labs' use of Claude outputs 'industrial-scale distillation' and pushes for policy to stop them, highlighting double standards.

• Claude
• Anthropic
• MiniMax
• Moonshot
• DeepSeek
• Distillation
• fair use