A US federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors who claimed the company's AI models were trained on copyrighted books without permission. The settlement, which was signed off on Monday, aims to provide compensation to affected authors. According to the settlement terms, authors will receive around $3,000 for each book that was used to train Anthropic's AI models. The settlement is intended to provide meaningful relief to the authors involved. This decision has significant implications for the use of copyrighted materials in AI model training and the rights of authors to control their work.