Anthropic agrees to pay 1.5 billion to authors for pirating their work to train A.I.: ohnotheydidnt

JUST IN: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement.

That’s at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated—well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial.

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Anthropic, which owns Claude, has agreed to settle for a minimum of 1.5 billion to authors whose books were used to train the large language model

Eligible authors will recieve $3k per book used

The plaintiffs argued that Anthropic used Libgen to download around 7 million copyrighted works

This is the largest settlement so far for authors whose works have been used, without permission, to train llms

Anthropic next faces a class action lawsuit from major music labels who have accused i