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Artists Built Workarounds While Courts Deliberated
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement exposed how thoroughly artists have stopped waiting for litigation to protect them.
A billion-dollar settlement should feel like accountability. The Anthropic claims process for authors has instead become the clearest evidence that the legal framework is designed for a different kind of harm. The documentation burden — requiring creators to prove, years after the fact, what was taken and how — assumes a world where copying leaves a clean trail. Training data does not. The authors who called it Kafkaesque are not describing bureaucratic frustration; they are describing a structural mismatch between how the harm happened and how the remedy is structured.