If you're a writer, check to see how much of your work has been used to train AI.

Me? 36 of my works.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If you have books on that list, you may be entitled to compensation.

https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

@sjvn I'm very curious how much of the $3K per book reported goes to the lawyers and how much to authors...

@mcdanlj My understanding is that's the authors and publishers' share. That said, typically, class action law firms get 25% to 35% of the settlement amount.

@sjvn Ah, so how about more simply: I'm curious how much will actually go to authors in the end. 🙂

@sjvn Interesting ... it turns up various versions of Linux Device Drivers, of course. But it also finds a refereed paper I published in 1994 ... those were the days ...

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/75/5/1520-0477_1994_075_0783_zsfida_2_0_co_2.xml

@sjvn How does this make you feel? They stole your work, is this compensation enough?

@sjvn I had my first LLM powered scambot trying to be my friend to promote my book. It had rephrased the blurb to look like it had read it.

@sjvn 9 works for me in libgen.

@sjvn
Three works for me; but all are multi-author so I wonder how that will work… 🤔

@Su_G @sjvn I get listed

@sjvn can authors opt-out and sue separately? I can imagine a deep-pocketed name saying "Nope, try $100k per"

@sjvn Looks like academic papers show up here too? Are authors of academic papers part of the class too? Or is the class limited to book authors?

@cuchaz It appears not in this settlement.

@MisterWanko Oh yes, and some already have.

@CStamp I regard it as a good start. All the AI companies do this, and that was for only one database.

@sjvn So they're going to pay you $108K ($3K x 36) for your books?

@wayubi Oh no. As far as I know, articles aren't covered. Darn it! I'll be pleasantly surprised to see $3,000. Class action lawsuit payouts are often smaller than they initially seem.

@corbet I'm always pleasantly surprised when some of my really obscure works show up.

@sjvn That's it? Just 36?

@stshank From that one database. I know for a fact that thousands of my articles have been gobbled up by the various AI LLMs vacuum cleaners.

@sjvn That's more what I expected.

@stshank A few months back someone accused me of using AI for one of my Linux articles and cited examples. I double-checked, and they were all examples derived from my own stories.