Anthropic Accused of Training AI on Pirated Books | $1.5B Lawsuit and Digital Ownership Crisis

Do AI companies have the right to train on pirated content? Or is it digital theft at massive scale?
In this episode of The Disruptive Technologies Podcast, Nikodemus breaks down the explosive lawsuit between Anthropic—maker of the Claude AI—and authors who claim their copyrighted works were stolen to train the model.

💣 Key insights in this episode:

Why a federal judge halted Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement

How AI models like Claude may rely on pirated books

The role of the Authors Guild—and whether it actually protects writers

The deeper threat to digital property rights in a centralized AI economy

How decentralized licensing could be the path forward

This case is bigger than a court battle—it’s a fight for creative sovereignty in the age of artificial intelligence.

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