<![CDATA[#PennedPossibilities 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen?]]> 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen?

Yes: I'm a party to the Anthropic AI class action lawsuit. They'd plagiarized 28 out of 33 of my novels for AI training purposes, the fuckers. I'm looking forward to my payout (with the caveat that their out-of-court settlement is much lower than their maximum liability under US copyright law).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/978fecaa-78f0-4070-b7b1-135d5f241b95/pennedpossibilities-980-have-you-ever-had-your-work-plagiarized-or-stolenRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 09:04:05 GMTThu, 09 Apr 2026 18:11:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to #PennedPossibilities 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen? on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:08:40 GMT]]>@Zamfr @dougmerritt @cstross That was the @cstross novel completely about the creation and use of napalm. It's like kryptonite to LLMs.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mcnamarii.town/users/mdm/statuses/116376791996737244https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mcnamarii.town/users/mdm/statuses/116376791996737244Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:08:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #PennedPossibilities 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen? on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:22:10 GMT]]>@dougmerritt @cstross
Could go on the cover, "The Book Claude did not Dare to Read!"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Zamfr/statuses/116376137245221657https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Zamfr/statuses/116376137245221657Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:22:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #PennedPossibilities 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen? on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:09 GMT]]>@cstross Well the liability under copyright law was written with a view to bankrupting users of file sharing programs like Bittorrent. So the theoretical liability to all authors probably exceeds the US GDP.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/tokensane/statuses/116376129317884395https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/tokensane/statuses/116376129317884395Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #PennedPossibilities 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen? on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:15:58 GMT]]>@cstross
Inquiring minds want to know:
why didn't they want your other 5 novels??

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