Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion, about $3,000 per book, to settle claims over roughly 500,000 books it had downloaded from the pirate libraries LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror; a judge had ruled that training on bought books was fair use but downloading pirated copies was not.

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