Alsup's ruling also revealed that Anthropic systematically acquired and destroyed thousands of used books to scan them into a private, digitized library for AI training. It was this claim that was recommended for a secondary, separate trial that Anthropic has decided to settle out of court.

Anthropic has settled a copyright lawsuit that risked exposing the company to billions of dollars’ worth of damages.

Anthropic trained its AI assistant Claude using copyrighted texts, according to a lawsuit from several affected authors. The company was potentially facing billions in damages.