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Anthropic agrees to settle book piracy lawsuit

Monday, 8 September 2025    Books+Publishing
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AI company Anthropic has agreed to pay US$1.5 billion (A$2.28b) to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot, reported The Guardian. Anthropic has agreed to pay about US$3000 (A$4579) to authors for each of the estimated 500,000...

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