JUDGE SKEWERS $1.5B ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT WITH AUTHORS IN PIRATED BOOKS CASE OVER AI TRAINING

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A federal judge expressed serious concerns about Anthropic's proposed settlement over the use of 500,000 pirated books to train an internal version of Claude. He questioned how the settlement money would be distributed: “I have an uneasy feeling about hangers on with all this money on the table.”