Daily Maverick | 09.02.2026 01:06
I recently read an exchange on social media. The original poster, an author, was asking her friends about a recent R25.67-billion ($1.5-billion) settlement from Anthropic, which was the amount offered to authors whose work had been used without authorisation in the training of their AI chatbot Claude. The responses swirled around who is entitled to make a claim, how to make a claim and how much could be expected by an individual author.
