Thursday, July 23, 2026

Anthropic Book Training Settlement

AP (Hacker News):

A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

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Bestselling thriller novelist Andrea Bartz first brought the suit with two other authors in 2024. It’s the first major settlement in dozens of AI copyright lawsuits that are still working their way through courts.

Dare Obasanjo:

Somewhat ironic given recent claims from Anthropic about others training their AI on its work.

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I don’t think $3,000/book is enough but it’s a start


Hmmm. why just 3,000 per book and not 3,000 per book multiplied by the number of devices that were used to train the models with this data?

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