Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge on Friday that it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission .

Anthropic and the plaintiffs in a court filing asked US District Judge William Alsup to approve the settlement, after announcing the agreement in August without disclosing the terms or amount.

“If approved, this landmark settlement will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, larger than any other copyright class action settlement or any individual copyright case litigated to final judgment,” the plaintiffs said in the filing. 3

The proposed deal marks the first settlement in a string o

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