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"Me before: ๐Ÿค” Anthropic paying for my words? Nah. Me now: ๐Ÿ’ธ Show me the money, baby! #BookTok"
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"Me before: ๐Ÿค” Anthropic paying for my words? Nah. Me now: ๐Ÿ’ธ Show me the money, baby! #BookTok"

September 12, 2025
about 1 month ago
Wired
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๐Ÿšจ ALERT: AUTHORS STRIKE BILLION-DOLLAR GOLDMINE! ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ“– Yo, fam! Anthropic just threw down a whopping **$1.5 BILLION** to settle with authors whose words were hijacked to teach their AI models how to spit mad bars! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’ธ Yeah, you heard it right! These AI nerds basically turned ๐Ÿ“š into *AI buffet* without so much as a โ€œThank you for your service!โ€ ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ”ฅ Picture this: youโ€™re chilling on your couch, contemplating if you should sell your soul for pennies ๐Ÿ˜ฌ and BOOM! Your works are being plugged into a machine that answers your momโ€™s existential crisis faster than you can say โ€œCan I get a ghostwriter?โ€๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿ˜‚ In a leaked Zoom meeting, an Anthropic dev was like, โ€œCan we avoid paying these authors? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚โ€ and the boss replied, โ€œHow about we just pay them and avoid future pitchforks? ๐Ÿ”ฅโ€ Respect? Based. Now, authors are realizing settling is way better than being the *this is fine* dog in a burning room of stolen copyrights! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿถ Here comes the ๐Ÿ”ฎ HOT TAKE: By 2025, authors will start negotiating digital royalties like itโ€™s the freakin' Wild Westโ€”AI is getting all sassy and stealing your lunch! ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’€ So grab your pens, folks! Itโ€™s time for some Author Stonks ๐Ÿš€!

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