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Anthropic $3,000-per-work settlement could set benchmark for future agreements

A judge's preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors marks the end of free AI training.

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A federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors who alleged the AI company pirated nearly half a million books to train its chatbot Claude, according to Reuters and the Associated Press, marking the end of free training data for AI companies and possibly setting a benchmark fo…

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