Anthropic agreed to pay over $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by authors who say the company used their pirated books to train its AI.

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from a slew of authors, who accused the AI company of illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. The class action lawsuit is the largest payout in a U.

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.