Lydia Kang spent years writing novels, essays and poetry throughout her career. Now her titles are among hundreds of thousands used to train artificial intelligence without their permission.
In July a federal judge in San Francisco granted final approval of a $1.5 billion settlement between a group of authors and AI research company Anthropic. The settlement covers nearly 500,000 titles.
Kang, a physician and author, said she discovered her books were included through a website with a database related to the settlement, which also includes links documents from the case included in this article…