AI start-up Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a copyright lawsuit over its use of pirated texts, setting a precedent for tech companies facing intellectual property cases from authors and publishers.
The settlement, which must be approved by the San Francisco federal judge overseeing the case, would be “the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history”, according to a court filing on Friday.
The class action suit was brought by authors who claimed Anthropic had downloaded 465,000 books and other texts from “pirated websites” including Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror, which it then used to train its large language models.
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