Anthropic tells US judge it will pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action
By Blake Britain and Mike Scarcella
September 5 – Anthropic told a San Francisco Federal judiciary on Friday, a group of writers who accused the artificial intelligence company AI Chatbot Claude to use his books to educate unauthorized training, said he agreed to pay $ 1.5 billion to open a class case.
In an anthropic and a court application, the plaintiffs asked the US regional judge William Alsup to approve the agreement after the announcement of the agreement in August.
“If approved, this turning point settlement, the biggest copyright recovery reported in history, will be greater than all other copyright class action agreements or any individual copyright case that has been sued in the final decision.” He said.
The proposed agreement points to the first settlement to use copyrights to train productive AI systems in a series of cases against technology companies, including Openai, Microsoft and meta platforms. The authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson took class action against anthropic last year. Supported by Amazon and Alphabet, they argued that the company used millions of pirate books illegally to teach AI assistant Claude to respond to human requests.
The claims of the authors reiterated dozens of other cases that say that authors, news organizations, visual artists and technology companies have stolen their work to use in AI education. Companies argued that their systems use the materials protected with the right to create new, transformative content. In June, Alsup decided that anthropic used the writers’ work to educate Claude, but found that the company violated more than 7 million pirate books in a “central library” for this purpose.
In December, a hearing was planned to begin to determine how much anthropic debt for the alleged piracy and the potential damages became hundreds of billions of dollars. The question of Pivotal Fair Use is still being discussed in other AI copyright cases. Another San Francisco judge was hearing a similar lawsuit against Meta, shortly after Alsup decided that the use of a copyright -protected work without permission to train AI would be illegal in many circumstances.
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