Last year, several writers filed a lawsuit against\u00a0Anthropic, the creator of the AI assistant Claude, accusing it of copyright infringement, as it used their works to train the AI. Now, the case seems to be finally leaning toward the authors: the company agreed to pay $1.5 billion to around 500,000 authors involved in the involuntary training.<\/p>\n
As reported by The New York Times<\/a> (via PC Gamer<\/a>), this is the largest settlement for a copyright case in US history. However, each writer would only get $3,000, which is nothing compared to what Anthropic could have earned with help from their works and much lower than it would have been ordered to pay: a court\u00a0may award up to $150,000<\/a>\u00a0per work infringed.<\/p>\n But there’s no guarantee Anthropic would have paid the maximum amount: a couple of months ago, a judge proclaimed<\/a> that training AI on written works is “transformative” enough to be considered fair use.<\/p>\n Well, at least all<\/a>\u00a0these<\/a>\u00a0cases<\/a>\u00a0targeting<\/a>\u00a0AI companies<\/a> keep the issue of copyright infringement afloat and speed up the development of necessary laws.<\/p>\n Would you agree to a $3,000 settlement? Join our\u00a080 Level Talent platform<\/a>\u00a0and our\u00a0Discord server<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Telegram<\/a>,\u00a0TikTok<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.<\/p>\n