Motley crew of plaintiffs
The authors who sued Anthropic are Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson. All three write about very different things: thriller and mystery stories in Bartz’s case, non-fiction in Graeber’s, and Johnson’s published about the war in Iraq after 9/11 and then turned to a true-crime report about the theft of exotic bird feathers for the purpose of fly fishing(!)
Not only have book writers set their sights on Antropic. Music publishers have also sued the company because its AI models would regurgitate existing song lyrics based on users’ prompts. In other words, these have allegedly also been used for data entry.