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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers
Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers over using pirated books from LibGen and PiLiMi to train its AI models. The settlement, approved by a U.S. District Judge, requires Anthropic to destroy the pirated datasets and distribute funds to over 500,000 potential class members.
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