Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by authors who accused the company of illegally using their books to train its AI models, a “landmark” agreement that could influence numerous other pending cases over the new technology.

In court filings on Friday (Sept. 5), attorneys for both sides disclosed the terms of an agreement first announced last week. They said the payout, if approved by a federal judge, would be the largest ever from a copyright lawsuit: “This result is nothing short of remarkable.”

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