It seems that Anthropic's piracy-related headaches are not going away just yet despite agreeing to the largest-ever payout for a copyright case in the United States.

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, just a few days back, Anthropic had reached a $1.5 billion settlement for a class-action lawsuit initiated by a group of around 500,000 authors, equating to a payout of around $3,000 for each litigant.

Do note that the Judge in question had ruled back in June that Anthropic's use of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM), Claude, constituted fair use of the said material, but caveated his judgement by allowing the litigants to pursue piracy claims against Anthropic for downloading books illegally from websites such as Library Genesis.

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