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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Riley Hoffman

Judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement for authors after using pirated books to train AI

A federal judge has approved a significant $1.5 billion copyright settlement, mandating that artificial intelligence company Anthropic compensate thousands of authors whose pirated works were used to train its Claude chatbot.

District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, in a Monday ruling, described the class-action agreement as providing "meaningful relief" to the affected writers and publishers.

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