Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author's class action lawsuit over AI training
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We are getting some news on Anthropic. Mackenzie Sagalos is that for us. Hey Mac. >> Hey Leslie.So there is a new filing in the class action lawsuit against Anthropic. They are going to pay $1.5% billion to settle a copyright case that was brought by authors who said that the AI startup downloaded millions of pirated books. Now the company had faced the risk of more than a trillion dollars in damages if they didn't settle.A San Francisco judge does still need to approve the deal. Anthropic's deputy general ...