“Success! Your registration form has been submitted successfully. If you are indeed a member of the class, you will receive formal notice later this year.” That’s the message you get when you register to receive your personal piece of the $1.5 billion that Anthropic, maker of the popular AI chatbot Claude, has proposed to pay authors after the company was found to have illegally acquired pirated books from notorious online “shadow libraries.” The deal, announced last week , would cover roughly 500,000 pir ...