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Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B AI training lawsuit settlement
A federal judge in San Francisco has given the green light to a $1.5 billion settlement for artificial intelligence company Anthropic in a class-action lawsuit. Authors had accused the company of misusing their books for training its Claude chatbot. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin dismissed objections that the settlement was insufficient and approved over $101 million in legal fees for the attorneys. This agreement follows a prior decision that training AI on books constitutes fair use under copyright law, although Anthropic was found liable for infringing rights by storing pirated books in a central repository.
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