"The decision will allow us to focus on developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations extend their capabilities, advance scientific discovery, and solve complex problems. As we've consistently maintained, the court's landmark June ruling that AI training constitutes transformative fair use remains intact. This settlement simply resolves narrow claims about how certain materials were obtained,"
"Anthropic is hardly a special case when it comes to infringement. Every other major AI developer has trained their models on the backs of authors and publishers, and many have sourced those works from the most notorious infringing sites in the world,"
""This is a fair settlement," Alsup said, though he added that distributing it to all parties will be "complicated.""
U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted preliminary approval to a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors alleging unauthorized use of roughly 465,000 books for AI training. The settlement provides about $3,000 per covered book and does not apply to future works. Alsup described the settlement as fair but warned distribution will be complicated. The Association of American Publishers called the agreement a major step toward holding AI developers accountable, and a publisher representative said other major developers have similarly relied on authors' works. Anthropic said the settlement resolves narrow claims while affirming the court's June fair-use ruling.
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