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A Kiwi author included in a billion-dollar US settlement over the illegal downloading of books to build an AI chatbot says she hopes the case will be a warning to the AI industry.
But the Society of Authors said the authors of millions of titles used to build the tools will miss out on compensation as they are not registered for copyright in American territories.
Anthropic AI has agreed to pay out up to $1.5 billion (NZ$2.6b) to settle claims it used millions of pirated books to train its large language models, in a class action in Californian courts.
Award-winning author Catherine Chidgey said she received an email saying her books Remote Sympathy, The Wishchild and The Transformation had been identified as being caught up in the case.
She said authors were being offered a payment of US$3000 (NZ$5240) for each title accessed by the company.
"On the one hand I'm grateful th
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