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If approved, the settlement would be the largest in the history of American copyright cases, according to a lawyer for the authors behind the lawsuit.

Anthropic, a major artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors who alleged the platform had illegally used pirated copies of their books to train large-language models, according to court documents.

“If approved, this landmark settlement will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, larger than any other copyright class action settlement or any individual copyright case litigated to final judgment,” said Justin Nelson, a lawyer for the authors.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California last year, centered on roughly 500,000 published works. The proposed settlement amounts to a gross recovery of $3,000 per work, Nelson said in a memorandum to the judge in the case.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's a start. Now do openai, Facebook, and the rest of them. Hopefully it's not reduced on appeal.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hopefully it's not reduced on appeal.

It's a settlement, not a judgement. Both sides agreed to this amount to end the lawsuit. Means there is no legal precedent set either.

[–] TooManyGames@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

This is interesting, because a judge just let Meta off the hook for downloading copyrighted works from pirate sites and even using Metas vast infrastructure to try to hide it. It's curious that Anthropic has to pay and Meta doesn't.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

Amazing, let's not forget that not a single AI company is profitable, and it's very possible that AI won't get substantially better than this. They're just shoveling billions of dollars into this thing as "the cost of doing business", and they probably won't see a real ROI from it.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Damn shame. America is a joke