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Authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson and Charles Graeber were three of many authors whose books were pirated to train artificial intelligence

The writers became named plaintiffs in a historic class action lawsuit, which alleged that AI company Anthropic infringed on copyrights by illegally downloading books

Following the case's $1.5 billion settlement in September, Bartz, Johnson and Graeber spoke with PEOPLE about what comes next

Author Andrea Bartz still remembers the moment she learned that her work had been pirated to train artificial intelligence.

It was August 2023. That month, The Atlantic published a series of articles about pirated books that were being used to fuel generative-AI systems created by Bloomberg, Meta and other companies. One story included

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