Anthropic PBC has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve a class action lawsuit brought by authors who accused the artificial intelligence start-up of illegally downloading millions of pirated books to train its language models.
One of the largest AI-related settlements
The proposed settlement, filed on Friday in San Francisco federal court, is one of the largest agreements yet over class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/us-judge-rules-anthropic-s-use-of-books-for-ai-training-is-fair-use-all-you-need-to-know-11750784012147.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual”>intellectual property and artificial intelligence. A trial in the case had been scheduled for December, with the plaintiffs seeking damages that could…
