Andrea Bartz Is One of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI

New York -bestselling thriller author Andrea Bartz struggled for years to hone her writing style and gain success in the literary world. So when she found out in 2023 that pirated versions of her books were being fed into AI systems, allowing them to spit out dozens of pages in her prose style in a matter of seconds, "it was like a gut punch," she says. The New York-based writer fought back by becoming one of the three main plaintiffs (alongside Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson) in a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic that accused the company of using stolen works to train its chatbot Claude. Bartz being alphabetically first of the trio, she "got the privilege and the tax of having my name become shorthand" for the legal precedent. Authors whose work was stolen would receive $3,000 for each book.