In what looks to be the largest payout in the history of US copyright cases, Anthropic will pay $1.5bn to settle with authors and publishers whose copyrighted materials were illegally downloaded to train the AI-chatbot Claude.
A few weeks ago, the generative AI (GenAI) giant decided to settle with a trio of authors who, in their lawsuit, claimed that “largescale theft of copyrighted works” is a key component of Anthropic’s business model. They said that the company took multiple steps to hide the full extent of its copyright theft.
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