Anthropic to pay $1.5B over pirated books in Claude AI training — payouts of roughly $3,000 per infringed work

Photo credit: Tim Wildsmith via Unsplash. Article by Luke James. Tom’s Hardware – September 6, 2025.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of pirated books in training its large language models. The proposed settlement, filed September 5, comes after months of litigation that could change how AI companies acquire and manage data for model training. The class action was led by authors […]

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