Following a class action lawsuit, the American artificial intelligence (AI) company, Anthropic must pay approximately $1.5 billion to book authors after using their fragments to train its chatbot.

In this regard, Anthropic's deputy general counsel, Aparna Sridhar, commented that "the agreement will resolve the plaintiffs' remaining legacy claims. We continue committed to developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations expand their capabilities, drive scientific discovery, and solve complex problems,” he said.

The agreement details that the company must pay approximately $3,000 to each author. Justin Nelson, a lawyer for the authors, emphasized that “as far as we know, this is the largest copyright recovery ever made. It is the first of its kind in the AI era,” he said.

An estimated 500,000 books are compromised in this agreement, which is brought before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, marking for the first time a turning point in the legal battles between writers, visual artists, among others, and artificial intelligence companies that use their works to train their AI systems.