I’m posting more selections from my published books here at Dada Drummer Almanach, in response to an irony of my writing life: only my latest book is in print, yet all are being mined for AI.
This is more than a paranoid assumption. A searchable database provided by The Atlantic in September 2023 detailed just one source of texts used by AI models. I learned then that not only my nonfiction but even my prose poetry had gone into the AI mill. My three full-length books to that date, Ways of Hearing, The New Analog, and The Memory Theater Burned were all in the database, alongside various journal publications of mine.
Use of my published work in this way without my knowledge or permission fell into the category covered by a class action suit brought against the AI company Anthropic (same company that created Claude, which I interviewed lately about AI music). I opted in and joined the suit, filing a claim which used a modified version of The Atlantic’s…
