Leading AI startup Anthropic, which just raised $13 billion earlier this month at a $183 billion valuation , has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors and publishers for at least $1.5 billion.

On Friday, the startup proposed paying about $3,000 per book to 500,000 authors. It would be the largest copyright payout in history, if approved, per The New York Times .

The case was filed last year by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, who alleged in the class action suit Bartz v. Anthropic that Anthropic had illegally used their work to train its AI models, downloading copyrighted books for free from pirated datasets. The ruling could also influence the more than 40 other copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies across the

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