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AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Authors have until March 30th, 2026 (That is just 9 days as of this reblog, which I am posting on March 21st, 2026) to file their claim against Anthropic to be reimbursed up to $3,000 per work found in the list.

Me: He's evil, isn't he?

Story: ah-HAH! Shock and terror! He's evil!

Me: Who woulda guessed...

Story: Behold! The evil witch!

Me: She's a good guy.

Story: But what if she was the good g- Okay, smarty pants. How's this? The kind and noble king is-

Me: Evil. Or incompetent. Or both. Is it both?

Story: Th-The stepmother-

Me: Is a misunderstood victim.

Story: The goblins and trolls-

Me: Are good people being opressed by the wicked humans. And let me guess. Fairies and mermaids are evil man-eating monsters?

Story: M-maybe. Well... uh... I swear this world is super surprising and subversive. The themes are unique!

Me: Are the themes related to disillusion with one's own childhood and what you were taught by birth, using fairytales and classic motifs as a stand-in for government, parental figures or religion? Does it frame traditional mindsets as inherently flawed and harmful?

Story: Er ... well... the princess-

Then the person behind it made a song about how he didn't have a band, but God gave him the tools with AI to produce music.

No, AI isn't a tool given to you by God. If you wanted to make music for the Lord and you were limited by your lack of knowledge in music or the tools to create the music, there were other ways. There are voice synthesizers that were based off a consenting singer -if it used a singer as a base- that have been around for over a decade (think of Miku Hatsune- and there are more like her). There are software programs like GarageBand (don't know if that particular one exists anymore, but still) that can help you create the music score. There are tons of resources to learn music theory in order to figure out how to put it all together.

Or go with the screw around with the software and figure things out that way.

AI meanwhile uses the songs and voices of others with or without their consent, trashes the environment, and does "the work" for you so you can feel accomplished while doing the bare minimum.

Sure, the guy apparently writes his own lyrics, but apparently that's as far as he's willing to go in this. And if he was really finding it that difficult to put music together, then maybe what he should have done was find someone proficient in music who could help him realize the vision.

And those of us who sounded the alarm on this have been mocked and derided as "old fashioned." This is how modern Christian music is, we were told. It's not so bad to sing songs from the radio at church, we were told. Don't judge how other people choose to engage with Christian music, we were told.

It's NOT SECULAR to CULTIVATE SKILL. There's nothing against God when you take the time to become really really good at something! It's not a sin to work with non-religious people to get your thing produced! It's not anti-Scripture to make art that isn't 100000% infused with Christianity!

Animation for Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet done by Danny Galieote. From his Facebook:

"Flashback 2001–Before painting full-time—At Disney…When I animated Jim Hawkins in these scenes, I had to be very present mentally and physically by acting out the scenes before drawing them. These rough pencil scenes are the bare bones of the movie.

For example, the shots with him stuck below deck with the giant spider villain (Scroop), I was listening to the soundtrack to Jaws (by the great John Williams), which always makes my hair stand up