Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors’ copyright lawsuit
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Anthropic agreed to pay at least $ 1.5 billion to file a class case with a group of writers claiming that the artificial intelligence attempt has reached his books illegally.
The company will pay about $ 3,000 plus interest per book, and according to a file on Friday, the alleged pirate material agreed to destroy data clusters.
The lawsuit against the anthropics was closely monitored by AI initiatives and media companies trying to determine what the copyright violation meant during the AI period. If the settlement of anthropic is approved, the public will be the largest copyright recovery reported in history according to the file.
“This settlement sends a strong message to AI companies and creators that it is wrong to take royalties from these pirate websites to AI companies and creators,” said Justin Nelson, “the plaintiff’s lawyer. He said.
Anthropic did not respond immediately to CNBC’s request for comments.
The trial, the US court of California’s Northern Region, was brought by the writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson. The case, Anthropic “pirate data clusters allegedly obtained by downloading and commercial exploitation of the” large -scale copyright violation “said.
In June, a judge decided that the use of books to educate anthropic’s AI models was “fair use”, but the company’s database library ordered a trial order to evaluate whether he had violated the copyright by taking things from the mirror of Genesis and Pirate Library. According to Friday’s file, the case was planned to continue to be tried in December.
At the beginning of this week, anthropic said he had closed a 13 billion dollar financing tour that valued the company for $ 183 billion. Finance was directed by ICONIQ, Fidelity Management and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
