Stewart Brand

So, there’s a $1.5 billion judgement against Anthropic for including 480,000 books in training their AIs.  Five of my books are among them.  Word is, there might be $1,500 payout per book, according to my agent Max Brockman. 

I wrote him the following:

If any payment comes to me, please send it back to Anthropic with my thanks for including my books in their AIs. 

The judgement website offers a way to opt out of the payment, but I found it cumbersome, so I didn’t.  (I’m principled but too lazy to be highly principled.)