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San Francisco: A US judge has approved a $US1.5 billion ($2.1 billion) copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $US3000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.
District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said in a ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers.
About 91 per cent of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment.
US District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court last September and has since retired. Alsup had dealt the case a mixed ruling finding that training AI chatbots on copyrighted books wasn’t illegal but that Anthropic wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate websites.
Bestselling thriller novelist Andrea Bartz first brought the suit with two other authors in 2024. It’s the first major settlement in dozens of AI copyright lawsuits that are still working their way through US courts.
AP
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