Anthropic has settled a copyright lawsuit that risked exposing the company to billions of dollars’ worth of damages.
The case, which concerns Anthropic’s use of millions of pirated books to train its large language model, Claude, was due to go to trial on Dec. 1. However, in a Tuesday court filing, Anthropic and the authors jointly informed a San Francisco federal court that they had reached a class-wide settlement. They requested that discovery be paused and existing deadlines vacated while the agreement is finalized.
