"Per a press release from the plaintiffs, Anthropic is supposed to fork over $3,000 for each work covered in the settlement, of which there are something like 500,000. If over 500,000 works' owners file, they'll pay those, too. If under 500,000 works are filed for, their authors could get more for them. All in, the settlement is about $1.5 billion, plus interest."
"And yet, for once, there's some good-ish news for the writerly set. A landmark lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude - and whose CEO recently said that it's okay for their product to benefit dictators - has resulted in a settlement! While it's not quite the trillion-dollar lawsuit our AI overlords had hysterically claimed could bring about the end of their industry, it's no small chump change, either, especially for the writers who can now get paid out per work that Claude devoured on its way to becoming a best-in-class product."
Writing is often an unprofitable, demoralizing grind for most creators as reading declines, scrolling rises, and AI systems ingest intellectual property without adequate remuneration. A major lawsuit against Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, reached a settlement that offers payments to authors whose works were used in training. The settlement provides $3,000 per covered work for roughly 500,000 works, totaling about $1.5 billion plus interest, with mechanisms to adjust payouts if filings fall above or below that number. Anthropic also agreed to delete pirated works it downloaded, though the settlement does not fully bar future lawsuits.
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