Pieter de Vries

AI companies, including Anthropic, are buying and pulping rare out-of-print books to scan them for training data, a practice that U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled legal in June 2025 under fair …

Dutch antiquarian bookseller Pieter de Vries received an email from a company called 2077AI requesting 3,001 books, which he dismissed as spam or phishing, but later learned it was linked to AI traini…