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Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement for Anthropic, requiring the AI company to pay authors $3,000 per book after using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot. The settlement, the largest copyright recovery in history, covers 91% of 482,000 books claimed by authors and publishers.
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