US court approves Anthropic’s record $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement has been approved in a landmark class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused the Claude maker of using their books to train its AI model, according to a Reuters report. US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in San Francisco on Friday approved what could be the largest copyright settlement in US history.

The deal was initially approved by now-retired Judge William Alsup in September last year.