Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters . In an order on Monday , Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide "meaningful relief," offering authors around $3,000 for each book allegedly pirated by Anthropic. 5 billion settlement is the "largest known copyright recovery in history," according to the law firm representing the plaintiffs .

A group of authors - Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson - first filed a copyright lawsuit against A … Read the full story at The Verge.