Writing is a wonderful profession... in writers' dreams! In reality, it's a grind that's comically unprofitable for the vast majority, to say nothing of the tortured ennui that comes with having to deal with actually writing, or the thought of actually writing, or the thought of what you aren't right now actually writing. And the economics are more harrowing than ever, as the once halfway-decent living one could make from publishing a book is now going the way of the dinosaur as people read less, scroll more, and AIs hoover up intellectual property and regurgitate it with little to no remuneration.

And yet, for once, there's some good-ish news for the writerly set. A landmark lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude — and whose CEO recently said that it's okay for

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