Fantasy is Reality

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.

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for @zukkaweek 2025 day 5: Keeping Warm | Language Barrier | Culture Shock

1: a girl and her mom are in a library and smiling. Narration begins: "A 10-year-old in Delaware was visiting her local library with her mother."

2: the girl picks a book off a shelf. Narrator: "While searching the shelves, she picked up the book "It's perfectly normal" by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley."

3: the girl holds the book in the car with her mom. Narrator: "The book is about sex education and is one of the most banned books of the past two decades. The little girl took it home."

4: the girl points at herself while the mom is shocked. Narrator: "Later that day, the little girl showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said: "This is me.""

5: the mom looks worried. Narrator: "Her father was abusing her, and it was the first time she'd spoken about it."

5: a fat black old judge in a courtroom. Narrator: "The father was convicted, and the judge said: "There were two heroes in this case. One was the child, and the other was the book.""

6: the author, an old white woman with short hair speaking. Narrator: "In an interview, the author, Robie H. Harris, said..."

"I have been called a pornographer, a child abuser — every name in the book, as the saying goes. But whenever I am called one of those names, I think of that ten-year-old girl. I wish we never had to talk with kids about any of these aberrant behaviors. But we have to do so because they already know about them to some extent and because kids have a right to have the accurate information that can keep them healthy and safe. They need to know how to get help to make any abusive behavior stop."

"Sokka couldn't understand why Zuko had flipped when he grabbed one of the animals by the neck and declared that they had dinner. The things swam right up! It was insane not to eat them. But apparently they were off the menu. He figured they were a sacred animal to the Fire Nation or something. At least Zuko let them eat some of the eggs, but the Fire Nation was weird."

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