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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement<\/a> in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.<\/p>\n

District Judge Araceli Mart\u00ednez-Olgu\u00edn said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides \u201cmeaningful relief\u201d to affected authors and publishers.<\/p>\n

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