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By Blake Brittain and Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge on Friday that it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission. Anthropic and the plaintiffs in a court filing asked U.S. District Judge William Alsup to approve the settlement, after announcing the agreement in August without disclosing the terms or amount. "If approved, this landmark settlement will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, larger than any other copyright class action settlement or any individual copyright case litigated to final judgment," the plaintiffs said in the filing. The proposed deal marks the first settlement in a string of lawsuits against tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta Platforms over their use of copyrighted material to train generative AI systems. Anthropic as part of the settlement said it will destroy downloaded copies of books the authors accused it of pirating, and under the deal it could still face infringement claims related to material produced by the company’s AI models. In a statement, Anthropic said the company is "committed to developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations extend their capabilities, advance scientific discovery, and solve complex problems." The agreement does not include an admission of liability. Writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed the class action against Anthropic last year. They argued that the company, which is backed by Amazon and Alphabet, unlawfully used millions of pirated books to teach its AI assistant Claude to respond to human prompts. 3rd party Ad. Not an offer or recommendation by Investing.com. See disclosure here or remove ads. The writers’ allegations echoed dozens of other lawsuits brought by authors, news outlets, visual artists and others who say that tech companies stole their work to use in AI training. The companies have argued their systems make fair use of copyrighted material to create new, transformative content. Alsup ruled in June that Anthropic made fair use of the authors’ work to train Claude, but found that the company violated their rights by saving more than 7 million pirated books to a "central library" that would not necessarily be used for that purpose. The pivotal fair-use question is still being debated in other AI copyright cases. Another San Francisco judge hearing a similar ongoing lawsuit against Meta ruled shortly after Alsup’s decision that using copyrighted work without permission to train AI would be unlawful in "many circumstances." Get an up-to-the-minute summary from WarrenAI, our powerful AI financial researcher. It's just like ChatGPT for investors, but with access to 1,200+ premium metrics spanning 10 years of data to instantly screen fundamentals, summarize breaking news, and reveal what Wall Street analysts are really saying about MSFT. Ask questions in your own language and get insider answers in seconds. Think of it as your experienced investment partner—always ready to help you think through every angle of MSFT.

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