Anthropic settles copyright lawsuit with US authors over AI training data

Anthropic, an AI startup has reached settlement in a high-profile class action lawsuit filed by a group of US authors. To recall, a group of US authors accused the company of using their copyrighted works without their permission or compensation to train its AI models. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed to the public, but agreement makes a significant moment in the on ongoing battle between AI developers and creative professionals.

Originally filed in 2024, the lawsuit alleged that Anthropic scraped and ingested thousands of books which included non-fiction, fiction and academic text books to train its AI system Claude without any authorisation. The class-action lawsuit filed included some prominent authors and was also backed by Authors Guild.