Judge Alsup criticizes Anthropic's $1.5B settlement as inadequate for pirated book claims
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US District Judge William Alsup criticized a proposed $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors over the AI company's unauthorized use of copyrighted books to train its AI models. The judge expressed concern that the settlement is being forced upon authors and represents a fraction of the potential damages, which could have exceeded $1 trillion. The settlement covers fewer than 500,000 works, while the certified class includes up to 7 million claimants whose works were allegedly illegally downloaded.
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The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages
critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,000 works and paying a small fraction of its
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