Japanese Book Wholesaler Admits Selling Books to Anthropic

According to a source in the publishing industry, a major Japanese book wholesaler has acknowledged selling large quantities of books to Anthropic, the U.S. artificial intelligence company.

The disclosure comes amid growing concern among publishers and authors that their works may be used to train AI models without their consent.

It remains unclear exactly how many books or which titles were sold, and neither the wholesaler nor Anthropic has issued official comment on the matter.