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132 I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now

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Steven Levy @ Wired · today 11:00 EDT

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.

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