TechCrunch August 23, 2026 • 15:00

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated - TechCrunch

By Amanda Silberling

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated - TechCrunch

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?

You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of boo… [+5688 chars]

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