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Judge rejects Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for AI copyright lawsuit


According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced "down the throat of authors."

Judge William Alsup has rejected the record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic has agreed to for a piracy lawsuit filed by writers. According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced "down the throat of authors." If you'll recall, the plaintiffs sued Anthropic over the company's use of pirated copies of their works to train its large language models.

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