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I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the idea.
Late last month, at that shameful White House tech dinner, CEOs took turns impressing Donald Trump with the insane sums they were allegedly investing in US-based data centers to meet AI’s computation demands. He recently posted that Trump should invoke a wartime provision called the Defense Protection Act, which allows the government to take over businesses in times of war, to justify the unapproved use of copyrighted books to train AI models. Last April, Jack Dorsey tweeted “Delete all IP law.” Elon Musk replied “I agree.” When I did my book about Google, Sergey Brin told me how antiquated an idea it was to spend so much time writing a long narrative when questions about the company might best be answered through a search engine.
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