Anthropic Reaches $1.5B Settlement in Lawsuit on AI Piracy
The AI company Anthropic, known for developing Claude, reached a $1.5 billion settlement after writers accused it of using pirated copies of their works to build its models. The proposed deal, which still requires approval from a federal judge, could become the largest public copyright payout ever recorded. The dispute began in 2024 when writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a case accusing Anthropic of feeding pirated copies of their books into its AI systems. Their complaint later grew into a class action that covered hundreds of thousands of writers and publishers. Evidence presented in court…