Inside the Explosive Anthropic Class-Action Lawsuit That Could Rewrite AI’s Future
$3000 Per Book
If you’re doing the math here, that works out to a settlement payout of $3000 per pirated book. Some of that money will go to the class-action lawyers. (That’s why they filed the lawsuit.) The rest of the money will go to whoever holds the rights to the pirated books—authors, publishers, and possibly others.
If you published a book that was pirated and used to train Anthropic’s AI model, then you are due for a payout, and it’s fairly easy to register your claim. Details on that are below, but first a few comments. There are a few cases to distinguish:
