A $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving artificial intelligence has authors weighing their options.
A lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the AI tool Claude, alleged that the AI was trained using illegally downloaded books, leading to copyright infringement.
As part of the settlement, Anthropic has denied any wrongdoing, but authors whose books were affected are being offered around $3,000 per stolen work.
Some authors, including Peter Heller and Camille Dungy, are among those whose books were swept up in the case.
Author summary: Authors debate $3K payout from $1.5B settlement.