Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
Summary
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement requiring AI company Anthropic to pay thousands of authors for using pirated copies of their books to train its Claude chatbot. About 91% of the 482,000 affected books have been claimed by authors or publishers who will receive roughly $3,000 per book.Key Facts
- Anthropic, an AI company, used pirated books to train its Claude chatbot.
- A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement for the affected authors and publishers.
- Payments will be around $3,000 per book to the authors or publishers who claim them.
- More than 482,000 books were included in the settlement.
- About 91% of those books have been claimed so far.
- The lawsuit began in 2024, started by thriller novelist Andrea Bartz and two other authors.
- A previous ruling said training AI on copyrighted books is not illegal but Anthropic acquired the books illegally from pirate websites.
- The settlement is described as the largest copyright recovery in history.
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