Summary
Anthropic, an AI company, agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit with authors. The authors claimed their books were used without permission to train Anthropic's chatbot. This is one of the largest copyright settlements involving AI and could impact how AI companies use creative works.
Key Facts
- Anthropic settled a lawsuit with authors for $1.5 billion.
- Authors said Anthropic used pirated books to train a chatbot.
- Each book in the lawsuit is set to receive about $3,000.
- The lawsuit involved around 500,000 books.
- A judge previously ruled that using pirated books was illegal.
- Anthropic agreed to delete the pirated book files as part of the settlement.
- If the case had gone to trial, Anthropic could have faced higher costs.
- A hearing to finalize the settlement is scheduled for a judge.
