Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from authors who accused the company of illegally using their books to train the Claude AI model. This is the largest copyright infringement settlement in history and a first of its kind in the AI era. The lawsuit was filed because Anthropic used millions of books obtained from pirate websites for training. While the company does not admit wrongdoing, it has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund to pay compensation, which could amount to about $3,000 per book. Anthropic has also committed to destroying the illegally obtained datasets. This event sets a powerful legal precedent for the entire industry. It challenges the "fair use" doctrine in the context of training AI on unlicensed data and strengthens the position of rights holders in their claims against other AI companies, such as OpenAI and Google, who face similar lawsuits.
Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Authors Copyright Lawsuit
