A federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement between AI company Anthropic and a group of authors who sued over copyright and piracy concerns related to the training of generative artificial intelligence models. US District Judge William Alsup had previously held off on approving the $1.5 billion settlement after he expressed concerns about authors potentially " getting the shaft " and not having enough time to join the suit by the given deadlines, along with additional questions.

The settlement will require Anthropic to pay $3,000 per book covered. Notices to authors will be sent via US mail, email, digital ads and more. Once the authors are notified and the claims process takes place, Alsup will consider final approval.

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