Amazon (AMZN)- and Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL)-backed Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the AI company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission, Reuters’ Blake Brittain and Mike Scarcella report. The proposed deal marks the first settlement in a string of lawsuits against tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (META) over their use of copyrighted material to train generative AI systems.
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