Feeling “misled,” judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic’s proposed settlement.

A federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half million books had been illegally…

Feeling “misled,” judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic’s proposed settlement.

After spending nearly an hour mostly lambasting Anthropic's settlement, Judge William Alsup scheduled another hearing on September 25.

Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the idea.