A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion class action settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors who claimed the company trained its AI on their copyrighted books without permission. The settlement will provide approximately $3,000 to each author for every book alleged to have been unlawfully used. Representing the largest copyright recovery to date, the case highlights growing legal scrutiny over AI training data. The authors include Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, who initially filed the lawsuit.
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