The settlement means that Anthropic will pay a total of 1.5 billion dollars, equivalent to just over 14 billion Swedish kronor. If the agreement is approved by a judge on Monday, it may mark a turning point in the legal battles between AI companies and authors, visual artists and other creative professionals who have alleged copyright infringement.
Anthropic has agreed to pay the authors approximately 3,000 dollars for each of the estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.
In June, a US federal judge found that it was not illegal to train AI chatbots on copyrighted books, but that Anthropic had wrongly acquired millions of books through pirate websites.
If Anthropic had not agreed to the settlement, it could have cost the San Francisco-based company even more money if it had lost the trial scheduled for December, according to experts.
