Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) BagTo begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reaching a settlement. The law firm representing authors in the suit has posted up a searchable database listing which works are included in the settlement. This settlement is, bluntly, the absolute minimum Anthropic could get away with paying. I had expected Anthropic to litigate this thing until the heat death of the universe. Authors qualified for the settlement can refuse it and pursue individual claims against Anthropic, but most authors can’t afford to do that and won’t (and wouldn’t necessarily get more even if they did).