Dhaka, Sept. 7 -- Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by book authors who accused the company of using pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot, Claude.

If approved by a San Francisco federal judge on Monday, the deal would mark a landmark moment in ongoing copyright disputes between AI developers and creative professionals, including writers, artists and publishers.

Under the settlement, Anthropic will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 per book for an estimated 500,000 works. It is believed to be the largest copyright payout ever secured.

"This is the first of its kind in the AI era," said Justin Nelson, a lawyer for the authors.

The case was originally ...