Ai Company Anthropic A agreed On Friday, a settlement of $ 1.5 billion, aimed at resolving a radical collective appeal brought by authors who allegedly alleged that the company had used pirated copies of their books to form its chatbot, Claude.
According to the proposed agreement, which is subject to judicial approval, the regulations provide approximately $ 3,000 to each of the authors for the 500,000 pounds estimated. If it is approved, it would do this “the The greatest public recovery in copyright in history. »»
The guild of the authors, which represents thousands of writers, welcomed The result. Friday, his CEO, Mary Rasenberger, called The colony “an excellent result for authors, publishers and rights in general, sending a strong message to the AI industry that there are serious consequences when they hack the authors to form their AI, steal the least capable of affording it.”
THE trial was initiated last year by author Andrea Bartz and the writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson. Later, they represent a wider class of writers and publishers after Anthropic was accused of having downloaded millions of pirated books to form its AI models.
In June, the American district judge William Alsup judge that even if the training of AI chatbots on books protected by copyright was not in itself illegal, Anthropic had wrongly obtained more than 7 million digitized works from Piracie websites, including books3, the Genesis library and the mirror of the Pirate Library.
If the company had been tried in December and lost, analysts said the financial blow could have been devastating. “We are considering a strong possibility of several billion dollars, enough to potentially paralyze or even shelter from business”, ” said William Long, legal analyst at Wolters Kluwer.
The agreement occurs in the middle of an in -depth examination of AI companies. Last month, X Corp and X.AI filed an antitrust complaint against Apple and Openai, accusing them of monopolistic practices in generative smartphones and chatbots. In addition, in Texas, the Attorney General Ken Paxton recently launched an investigation into meta and character.
