The court filing says the $1.5 billion settlement, if approved by the court, ‘will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history.’
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Anthropic, the company behind chatbot Claude, has agreed to pay “at least” $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors that accused the AI company of downloading millions of pirated books to train its AI.
Amid numerous lawsuits accusing the world’s largest AI firms of improperly using copyrighted data for training—including ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and AI search engine Perplexity—this represents one of the largest AI copyright settlements yet. The settlement works out to close to $3,000 for each of the 500,000 works mentioned in the class action.
