AI firm Anthropic reaches landmark $1.5B copyright deal with book authors — from washingtonpost.com by Will Oremus; this is a gifted article
The authors hailed the settlement as a win for human creators after they alleged the company downloaded millions of books without permission.
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular chatbot Claude, will pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by book publishers and authors, according to documents filed in federal court Friday.
The settlement allows Anthropic to avoid going to trial over claims that it violated copyrights by downloading millions of books without permission and storing digital copies of them. The company will not admit wrongdoing.