Books that do not have a legal copyright were eliminated from the lawsuit. Considering that they are supposed to pay $1,500 a book, gee, I could have made a fortune with my twenty-three titles, probably more than I have ever earned writing. But the fine print does say the author gets what is left over after legal fees and handling. In my scant experience with class action lawsuits, my son once got $37 from a lawsuit that he couldn't even remember by the time it was settled. Despite this, I found and filled in a form to claim a settlement from my lone title. The Authors' Guild also has a reliable source for this form, but there are lots of the out there. Be careful not to use any that ask you for money. I used the one at www.AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com. The deadline for filing is January fifteenth. I won't get much, but do hope my pittance and thousands of others hurt Anthropic as much as they have hurt us.
On a lighter note, one of my friends suggested I might someday be proud to have had my writing skills used to develop early AI. Hmmm, not so much. If I publish another book, I will be sure to put the statenebt in the front that my work is not to be used to train AI without my permission--as if that will stop them.
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