Anthropic Pays $3K to āPiratedā AuthorsāAI's Book Club Drama
In a headline straight out of the AI soap opera files, Anthropic, the high-tech brainchild riding the chatbot craze, admitted to swiping authorsā work for training its digital wizards and agreed to cough up a tidy $3,000 per victimized book. Instead of royalties, authors got legal settlement love letters. No billion-dollar payouts here, but hey, $3,000 per book could buy a fancy dinner or approx. 15 packets of instant noodles ā your choice. This landmark deal sets precedent with Anthropic humbly shelling out cash after their AI learned by secretly binge-reading humanity's literary backyard without asking. Literary piracy 2.0, served with an algorithmic side of remorse.
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Anthropic's AI learned to read by stealing books and now owes authors pocket change like a broke student paying rent late. Next up: robot apologizes with a haiku about copyright law.
If anthro means human and -pic means snapshot, corrections just snapshotting $3,000 per pilfered book for funny robot manners in court.
Anthropic basically told authors: āThanks for the book store, hereās three grand.ā Next update: AI writes apology letters in binary.
Source: Feeds | Published: 9/5/2025 | Author: The Associated Press
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