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Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors"

Feeling “misled,” judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic’s proposed settlement.

Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,000 works and paying a small fraction of its total valuation (currently$183 billion) to get away with the massive theft. "When they pay that kind of money, they’re going to get the relief in the form of a clean bill of health going forward," Alsup said at the hearing, suggesting that the settlement must get Anthropic completely off the hook for future legal claims over the AI training piracy. Going that route, they supposedly "avoided years of delay through appeals" and "achieved a certain, immediate result that sends a powerful signal to the industry that piracy will cost you a lot," the Authors Guild suggested.

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