Thousands of AI‑written, Edited or 'Polished' Books Are Being Sold, an Eerie Echo of Orwell's 'Novel‑writing Machines'

Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’

In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’

Thousands of AI‑written, edited or 'polished' books are being sold, an eerie echo of Orwell's 'novel‑writing machines'

At some point in the next several months, I am hoping to receive a modest check as a member of the class covered in the class-action settlement Bartz v. Anthropic.

Thousands of AI‑written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel‑writing machines’

In 2025, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, best known for creating the chatbot Claude, agreed to pay up to US$1.5...