I didn't pay enough attention to this case, but seems like everybody and their brother is gonna try to get some of that AI money...(you ripped off my article, you ripped off my website, you ripped off my idea...
The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and the writers, visual artists and other creative professionals who accuse them of copyright infringement.The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.“As best as we can tell, it’s the largest copyright recovery ever,” said Justin Nelson, a lawyer for the authors. “It is the first of its kind in the AI era.”