Anthropic AI copyright lawsuit: Update as judge approves massive settlement and payout for authors

Anthropic will finally have to pay authors for pirating their books. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved a $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement. The payout is believed to be the largest ever for a U.S. copyright suit.  Companies like Facebook parent Meta Platforms and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have also faced copyright lawsuits from authors. What does the Anthropic settlement say? Each member of the class action lawsuit could receive between $200 and $150,000 per work,…