“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors for using 500,000 copyrighted works without permission to train AI models. This landmark settlement, pending court approval, would provide authors $3,000 per pirated work and requires Anthropic to destroy all unauthorized copies, establishing a precedent that AI companies must compensate copyright owners for training data.