Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement where Anthropic will pay thousands of authors approximately $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train Claude. The settlement establishes a precedent for AI training data liability and codifies financial exposure for using unauthorised published works.

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