Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
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- A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement in which Anthropic pays authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot.
- Approximately 91% of the 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers.
- Plaintiff attorney called it the largest known copyright recovery in history.
- A prior ruling found training AI on copyrighted books not illegal but noted Anthropic wrongfully acquired books through pirate websites.
- Anthropic argues the settlement affirms that training AI on books is fair use under copyright law.
- The lawsuit was first filed in 2024 by novelist Andrea Bartz and two other authors.