AI company Anthropic has agreed to settle a 1.5 billion dollar lawsuit from authors. The class-action lawsuit argued that Anthropic took about 500,000 pirated copies of books to train its AI chatbot, Claude. The lawsuit covered about 500,000 copyrighted works, meaning the total payout could be around $3,000 per book. Aparna Sridhar, Anthropic’s deputy general counsel, emphasized that the court thought Anthropic’s approach to training AI models was fair use and that they remain committed to developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations extend their capabilities.