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Judge not pleased with Anthropic's $1.5bn AI piracy settlement; authors could "get the shaft"

Rob Beschizza
Sep 10, 2025
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Anthropic, operator of LLM chatbot Claude, proposed paying a $1.5bn settlement to authors whose books it pirated to build its $183 billion language model. The district judge in charge of the case finds it underwhelming, and even suggested it is being shoved "down the throat of authors."

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