Authors Unite

This notice is to all authors. A big tech firm in California stole millions of books. Even if you’re not on the “official” list, your book may have been ripped off. But the theft doesn’t stop there.

Anthropic stole copyrighted books to train its AI. The program called Claude allows anyone to use our work to create similar books that they can say are their own, to sell and compete with us on Amazon and other sites. Anthropic admitted in court that they downloaded our books from illegal websites onto their company computers. As part of the settlement, Anthropic agreed to pay copyright holders and remove the unlawfully obtained files from their computer storage. The settlement is for 1.5 billion dollars, but the problem is that the money will go primarily to the lawyers and publishing houses, leaving us authors with less than $1,500 per book.

They want to destroy our livelihood and use us to pull off the largest creative heist in history. They’ve stolen our work and are going to use our words, our creativity, and our inspiration, and their computer program will regurgitate it and claim it as its own. And we get paid—nothing.

That’s wrong, it’s outrageous, and should be stopped.

Other authors and I are filing a suit to prevent this. Would you like to join us?

Sincerely,

Fellow Author

Christopher Greyson