“ZLIBRARY MY BELOVED”: ANTHROPIC STAFF CHATS EXTOLLING PIRACY CITED IN SONY SUIT

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Anthropic's mass campaign of illegal torrenting allegedly began in July 2021. Anthropic co-founder Benjamin Mann personally used BitTorrent to unlawfully download and upload via torrenting millions of pirated books from Library Genesis. Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei allegedly approved the torrenting. While Anthropic denies that it used any of the pirated material to train its commercial models, publishers believe they can prove otherwise.