AI company Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement on Friday, aimed at resolving a sweeping class-action lawsuit brought by authors who alleged the company used pirated copies of their books to train its chatbot, Claude.

According to the proposed agreement, which is subject to judicial approval, the settlement provides roughly $3,000 to each of the authors for the estimated 500,000 books covered. If approved, it would make this “the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history.”

The Authors Guild, which represents thousands of writers, welcomed the outcome. On Friday, its CEO, Mary Rasenberger, called the settlement “an excellent result for authors, publishers, and rightsholders generally, sending a strong message to the AI industry that there are serious cons

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