AI company use of texts

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Anthropic AI have just got pinged for breaking copyright. This includes academic texts and what I read suggested claims of US$3000 per book on the list. I post here because I grabbed a book on my desk to check, @f2harrell 's Regression Modelling Strategies and found it was on the list.

You may want to check out your own.
Sadly for me the only book that I contributed to on the list I don’t have copyright on. Ironically, I’d contributed an article on plagiarism.
I got alerted to this via: AI company will pay authors $1.5 billion in damages after using their copyrighted works to train its models | News | Chemistry World

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Thanks for alerting me. I just submitted a claim. Glad it covers “beneficial owners” and not just publishers (copyright holders).

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Many thanks for bringing this here. I have two books “on the list” and I haven’t been contacted and think I probably am a “beneficial owner.” Maybe the settlement will pay for a good bottle of wine after the publisher and the lawyers take their cut.

It has been obvious to me for a long time that a lot of the “intelligence” that “AI” models spit up in response to a query is plagiarized material from books and blogs and quite a lot of WIKIPEDIA.

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