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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters.

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A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors who claimed the company's AI models were trained on copyrighted books. This settlement resolves a class action lawsuit filed by authors who accused Anthropic of copyright infringement.

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