Anthropic与图书作者达成15亿美元盗版和解，创纪录损失却为AI实验室赢得最大法律胜利

Anthropic has to pay book authors $1.5 billion in a copyright settlement. A federal court in San Francisco approved the settlement after Anthropic downloaded books from the piracy databases LibGen and PiLiMi between 2021 and 2022. Of roughly 482,460 listed works, 91.3 percent were claimed, netting about $3,000 each, four times the statutory minimum. Anthropic must destroy the pirated files. Authors retain claims over AI outputs that reproduce original works and over Anthropic's future conduct. It's the largest copyright settlement in class action history. But the payout covers piracy, not AI training itself. Judge Alsup had previously ruled that training AI on legally obtained books is "transformative - spectacularly so" and falls under fair use. Whether mass scraping of internet content without authors' consent counts as legal acquisition remains an open question, so the fair use debate is likely far from over . Still, the ruling looks like a milestone for AI labs that trained on web content without website owners' consent, their main source of training data. Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.