Anthropic has agreed to pay over $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit with the writers.

According to a document released on Friday, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a collective lawsuit with a group of authors who claim that the company illegally obtained their books. The company will pay approximately $3,000 per book plus interest, and has agreed to destroy the dataset containing the so-called pirated materials. This lawsuit against Anthropic has attracted close attention from both artificial intelligence startups and media companies, as they have been trying to determine the implications of copyright infringement in the age of artificial intelligence. The document states that if Anthropic's settlement proposal is approved, it will be the largest publicly reported copyright settlement ever.