How a $1.5 Billion Settlement Could Alter the Course of AI

15亿美元和解金如何改变人工智能的轨迹

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2025-09-11

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Get more information about our first-ever live show here! Limited tickets left. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over the company's use of pirated books to train large-language models. WSJ’s Melissa Korn unpacks the proposed settlement and explores what the precedent could mean for the AI industry. Ryan Knutson hosts.  Further Listening:  Why Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Went Rogue The Company Behind ChatGPT Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • The boom in AI over the last few years has also led to a boom in lawsuits.

  • As artificial intelligent chatbots are growing more and more popular,

  • a number of authors are now suing the companies behind them.

  • Two major studios have sued an AI startup claiming it as,

  • quote, blatantly copied famous movie characters.

  • Sarah Silverman is going into battle against the chat bolts.

  • George R.R.

  • Martin and more than a dozen other authors now suing the New York Times becoming the first major media company to sue over AI.

  • So we've got some movie studios suing.

  • We've got book publishers and authors.

  • We've got newspaper publishers, including to subsidiaries of News Corp, our parent company.

  • There's a lot of litigation right now over how AI companies are kind of coming into the material that they're using to train their large language models and then also what they're doing with that material once it is in their system.

  • Companies like OpenAI have argued that training AI models amounts to fair use.

  • Last year, a group of authors filed one of those lawsuits against the AI company Anthropic.

  • They alleged that Anthropic, the AI startup,

  • infringed their copyrights for a number of books because of the way Anthropic uploaded and then used the material for training and other purposes.

  • Last week, there was a big development in the case.

  • artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay one and a half billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit.

  • It's big.

  • If it's approved, it will still help influence how AI companies think about taking content,