Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors
The settlement compensates authors about $3,000 per work for nearly 500,000 pirated books used without permission to train Anthropic’s AI, marking a legal first.
- A $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors has been approved by District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco federal court.
- The settlement will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each book covered by the agreement, to address Anthropic's wrongful acquisition of copyrighted books to train its AI chatbot Claude.
- Bestselling author Andrea Bartz, who sued Anthropic last year, supports the settlement and will explain its significance to fellow writers, while Judge Alsup plans to step down by year-end.
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Anthropic, prosecuted for training his AI with millions of illegally downloaded books, will have to pay $1.5 billion to authors and publishers.
$1.5 billion Anthropic AI settlement gets preliminary OK from U.S. judge
A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots.U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns about the settlement, which will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each o…
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