Anthropic agrees to pay 1.5 billion to authors for pirating their work to train A.I.

JUST IN: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement.

That’s at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated—well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial.

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— WIRED (@wired.com) September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM

• Anthropic, which owns Claude, has agreed to settle for a minimum of 1.5 billion to authors whose books were used to train the large language model
• Eligible authors will recieve $3k per book used
• The plaintiffs argued that Anthropic used Libgen to download around 7 million copyrighted works
• This is the largest settlement so far for authors whose works have been used, without permission, to train llms
• Anthropic next faces a class action lawsuit from major music labels who have accused it of pirating lyrics to train Claude
• In the settlement Anthropic denies all culpubility

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