Anthropic ordered to pay $1.5 billion for training on pirated books
Anthropic settlement is a turning point in the AI-versus-authors fight — but the larger battle is only beginning
The tentative deal announced this week, in which Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to resolve a U.S. class action alleging that the company trained its Claude models on pirated books, marks one of the clearest commercial reckonings so far between generative-AI companies and the creators whose work fuels them.
On its face the settlement is startling: the filing says it covers roughly 500,000…