I’m curious, Dave, I have been receiving a lot of emails to join in various class actions against Anthropic as well, for a book I have through MIT press.
Since the emails are coming from several putative plainants, I was unsure how many of these are actually opportunistic scams. Do you know of a watchdog on this topic? I have been too clutter-minded to go after checking it. Thanks, Eric > On Mar 23, 2026, at 8:23, Prof David West <[email protected]> wrote: > > or - out of the blue - pay you for it. I am supposed to get a $3,000 check > from Anthropic next month because they used my book, among 1000,000 others > probably, to train Claude. > > davew > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2026, at 9:52 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: >> Never throw away a book; never throw away any thing u have written until u >> have written a better vsn or published it. U can never tell when the world >> will come knock for ur thghts. >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology >> Clark University >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson >> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson&c=E,1,uAt4_y_a0SsM6BS15TC9BhHaKQtI_0KWEX2jBmQPdwZTAy-mqvu4tQ4WGaXJ8AwyySoUBkCLGh2py1TjnRErWWK6pgdRJhbC4QW_pLJy9y6x&typo=1> >> https://substack.com/@monist >> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsubstack.com%2f%40monist&c=E,1,VSsFBTkBTJbN8ThACF8NmijxwOrcRwvMPELcVljc6I3LnjWIPjeTBxuHccuggJf83aRsc97zGCV-9Vo-67jfy1DO9xALe5csDWxrvUm_E40mw8QDsn1cgji3owg,&typo=1> >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:45 PM Steve Smith <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Nick - >> > I would like to see it. Resend. . >> >> If I didn't post it, I deleted it... >> >> My compulsions are equal parts composing such and deciding it is totally >> irrelevant to the conversation and deleting it. >> >> Yes, George is equal parts mind-reader and sycophant. 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