Anthropic Agrees to Pay at Least $1.5 Billion in Landmark Copyright Settlement [View all]
Source: Wall Street Journal
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over its use of pirated books to train large-language models.
Lawyers for plaintiffs said in a court filing Friday that, if approved, the proposed settlement would be the largest of its kind.
The settlement could influence the outcome of pending litigation between other media companies and AI firms, and may push the tech companies to seek licensing agreements with content owners whose works are considered vital for training purposes.
The federal suit, filed in California last summer by three authors, alleged that Anthropic violated copyright laws by using millions of pirated works to train its Claude AI models and tried to cover up its copyright theft.
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Funny and sad fact.
A judge found in June that the “fair use” argument didn’t cover more than seven million books that Anthropic obtained from known ebook piracy sites.
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