AI company Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle author in lawsuit

Meanwhile, in this wild wild west of artificial intelligence, we are starting to see some lines in the sand materializing when it comes to what is copyright protected and what is open season for AI to consume. And those lines are coming in the form of class action lawsuits like this. It's the largest copyright settlement in American history.The AI company Anthropic forced to pay out a whopping $1.5% billion dollar after a judge said it illegally pirated more than 7 million digitized books to train its AI mo ...