Steal copyrighted data to train your AI model and pay billions in litigation (and also be required to destroy those data sets used in the models). This is the expensive lesson that Anthropic is learning as they agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement.

The AI Ethics community who has been ringing this bell for years!

More lawsuits are on the way!

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/anthropic-agrees-pay-15-billion-settle-author-class-action-2025-09-05/