After Anthropic settlement, authors can expect about $3,000 per book
Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement is the first major AI deal approved by a court in which authors can claim payment, at roughly $3,000 per book. The judge held that training can be fair use but that books obtained from pirate sites are not; the Authors Guild called unlicensed training a danger to the literary ecosystem.
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