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Ryan Estrada
@ryanestrada.com

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

theatlantic.comSearch LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIMillions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
Lindsay Wiley
@lindsaywiley.bsky.social

The certified class that will get shares of the settlement = “legal or beneficial owners of the exclusive right to reproduce any ISBN- or ASIN-bearing book that Anthropic copied from the two pirate sites.” Authors who did not retain exclusive reproduction rights are not included.

Mister Slang
@misterslang.bsky.social

Thanks. Form submitted. The initial publications were mainly UK, though a number of the titles have been distributed in US. Written 60 books and wonder if there are others that the LibGen list missed. Are there similar lists available?

Amelinda Bérubé
@metuiteme.bsky.social

It sounds like the question is whether your work was registered for copyright in the US by a certain date, not where you're from - Courtney Milan has some helpful threads on this, including where to check if your books were registered

François Marechal
@francoismarechal.bsky.social

My name appears but it is published work with an editor (Elsevier) who collects the money without giving me any penny. Was created by my scientific work before the era of #openaccess if I complain an other thief will profit from the settlement. I prefer that my contributions go public.

Barbellion
@barbell-lion.bsky.social

What's the deal with academic papers? A load of mine are in there but I guess I assumed that academic publishing is such a racket theres no way I actually have any ownership of that material? Or do I?

Ryan Estrada
@ryanestrada.com

Apparently, that list is incomplete! My books aren't listed, but when I check libgen itself they are, and without my name. Warning, this is a shady site full of scammy popups so I'm not linking directly but find it at your own risk to check for your books. libgen dot li

Ryan Estrada
@ryanestrada.com

Sorry, it's Anthropic, not OpenAI. Either way hopefully this prescedent takes them all down. I don't have answers to whether you are eligible, but fill out the form if your name shows up and fancy lawyers will figure it out for you. The form is very simple. I did it in seconds.

DrYazman
@dryazman.bsky.social

It isn't a precedent. This case was settled by the parties, and as such no judgment was handed down. Settlements have no precedential value, this won't affect any other company.

aproxm
@handle.invalid

yes i hope as well this "prescedent" takes down those evil online resources and libraries. poors should not educate or entertain themselves with anything but sticks and rocks outside

Dr Syd
@sydmj.bsky.social

Yeah, libgen is basically gone. You can check the Atlantic database, which shows what was on libgen as of earlier this year. The downloads occurred in June 2021 (Anthropic) and July 2022 (PiLiMi) so the settlement only includes books on those sites before then. See details in this article:

authorsguild.orgWhat Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors GuildToday, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...