Anthropor to pay $ 1.5 billion to settle the copyright suit for authors

Antarubor agreed to pay at least $ 1.5 billion to settle a collective lawsuit suit With a group of authors, who claimed artificial intelligence The startup illegally operated their books.

The company will pay approximately $ 3000 per book in addition to the interest, and agreed to destroy data groups containing alleged pirated materials, according to the submission of a file on Friday.

The lawsuit against Antarbur was closely seen by startups and media companies that are trying to determine what means violating copyright in the era of artificial intelligence. If the Antarbur settlement is approved, it will be the largest recovery of the copyright reported in history, according to the submission of the deposit.

“This settlement sends a strong message to AI and the creators alike, that taking copyright works from these pirates sites is wrong,” CNBC, Justin Nelson, told CNBC in a statement.

The anthropier did not immediately respond to the CNBC request for comment.

The lawsuit, which was filed in the US provincial court to the northern province in California, was filed last year by authors Andrea Partz, Charles Gray, Kirk Wallace Johnson. The Filling said that the lawsuit claimed that Antarubor had implemented “violation of copyrights to ignite by downloading books and commercially exploiting them from alleged data collections.”

In June, a Judge Ruling Anthropor’s use of books to train artificial intelligence models was “fair use”, but he ordered the experience to assess whether the company violates copyright by obtaining works from the database library and the pirate library mirror. The case was to be tried in December, according to a Friday report.

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