Anthropic Settles Authors’ Class-Action Over Book Use in AI Training
Anthropic has settled Bartz v. Anthropic, a class-action by fiction and nonfiction authors over the company’s use of books to train its LLMs, in a filing with the Ninth Circuit. The company previously won a fair-use ruling but still faced penalties tied to pirated books. Settlement terms were not disclosed.
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