Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of pirated books in training its large language models.

Anthropic agreed to pay over $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by authors who say the company used their pirated books to train its AI.

Lawyers said it’s believed to be the largest-ever settlement in a US copyright case, paying about $3,000 per book.

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