Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, who claimed the artificial intelligence startup had illegally accessed their books.

The company will pay roughly $3,000 per book plus interest, and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material, according to a filing on Friday.

The lawsuit against Anthropic has been closely watched by AI startups and media companies that have been trying to determine what copyright infringement means in the AI era. If Anthropic's settlement is approved, it will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, according to the filing.

"This settlement sends a powerful message to AI companies and creators alike that taking copyrighted works from these pi

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