What Anthropic’s big payout means for AI and copyright

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors whose pirated books the company used to train its AI model, an eye-popping amount and one of the first big settlements of its kind. With so many copyright cases hanging out in the courts, could this be the first of many big payouts to come? On POLITICO Tech, host Steven Overly put that question and others to Keith Kupferschmid, the CEO of the Copyright Alliance. 

Steven Overly is the host of POLITICO Tech and covers the intersection of politics and technology. 

Nirmal Mulaikal is the co-host and producer of POLITICO Energy and producer of POLITICO Tech. 

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