Anthropic has recently reached a legal settlement with a group of fiction and non-fiction writers following a class-action lawsuit. The resolution was disclosed through documents filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. Although the company secured partial victory in the lower court ruling, it continues to appeal the decision. Specific terms of the agreement remain confidential, and Anthropic has not yet commented publicly on the matter.

The case titled Bartz v. Anthropic centers on the company's use of literary works to train its large language models. While the court recognized this usage as fair under copyright law, significant financial penalties persist due to the widespread inclusion of pirated materials in the training dataset.

Despite these challenges, Anthropic welcomed the initial judicial findings as a landmark decision for generative AI technology. "Our intention to acquire books solely for developing large language models was clearly established in court," the company emphasized in a statement to NPR following the June ruling.