Anthropic lost a class action suit for scraping books. Writers can register with Anthropic to be compensated for their pillaging of our copyrights.

The compensation system was AI-coded.

Anthropic can't keep track of our submissions. They don't know who wrote what.

Their customer support is AI-driven. Send a mail! Log in to a nonexistent page! Resubmit and it'll be fine!

This will be fine.   

@mwl Modern life built on quicksand.

Why so many rush to predicate way too much on unproven tech. Worse - tech proven to be flawed.

@NicelyManifest
Oh no, that is by design. Maximum friction so they don't have to pay out. It's the eldest trick in the book and can well be done without AI. It just makes it more easy.
@mwl

@JorisMeys @NicelyManifest @mwl Well, I guess the plaintiffs will motion for an enforcement procedure and the court will appoint a special master for somewhere around 1000 USD per hour ...

How will that keep them from having to pay?

@tessarakt I co-authored R for Dummies. So I split between my co-author Andrie de Vries and the publisher. They'll pay out those that manage to get through allright, but for me to get registered is nigh impossible, and starting a case from Belgium about malicious compliance for a few hundred dollars, not going to do that.

And that's exactly the intended result.

@NicelyManifest @mwl

@JorisMeys @tessarakt @mwl R is new to me. I thought you were abbreviating. And a new kind of app/tool/system.

Was unsure what you meant by registration impossibility.

@NicelyManifest
It's about the Anthropic case of intellectual theft.

https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

@tessarakt @mwl

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

@JorisMeys @tessarakt @mwl Such matters scarring modern life so deeply. Feel sorry for the mess young people have to navigate with very little life experience.
@tessarakt And that steps on another insane matter - how vast hourly rates are for consultancy jobs that are less demanding often than caring on a pittance for a dementia patient ...