CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal : Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by authors who alleged that their books were used without permission to train the AI model. The settlement, which could become the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, is pending approval by a federal judge in San Francisco.
The authors, including Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, accused Anthropic of using millions of pirated books to train Claude. While a judge previously ruled that training AI on copyrighted works could be fair use, storing over seven million books in a central library without proper authorization was deemed a violation of rights. As part of the settlement, Anthropic will destroy the unauthorized copies of the books.
The company has not admitted liability but emphasized its commitment to developing safe AI systems. This case marks a significant development in the ongoing debate over the use of copyrighted materials in AI training.
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