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These cases will be settled out of court long before they ever reach a jury. Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn in a class action suit [0]. Others will follow.
[0] https://legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-blog/the-bart...

When Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit in August 2025, it became the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. Three authors had sued, but nearly half a million ended up in the class. And a quarter of the money will go to lawyers.