AI company will pay authors $1.5 billion in damages after using their copyrighted works to train its models
Academics set for payouts of $3000 for each book that was illegally downloaded
US-based AI company Anthropic has reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with authors of books that it used to train its models without obtaining prior permission.
Under the settlement, announced at the end of September, Anthropic must pay the authors of books – including academic ones – $1.5 billion (£1.1 billion) after downloading their works from the pirate websites LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) to train its AI models.