Straws in the Wind - Part 228 (if you can't lick 'em, join 'em)

From The Dartmouth: Last December, the College announced a partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services, making Dartmouth the first Ivy League university to launch artificial intelligence at an institutional scale. The Dec. 3 announcement has drawn criticism from some faculty members, including claimants in a class action lawsuit against Anthropic for allegedly infringing their copyrights and unethically downloading their publications to train its large-language model Claude. More than 130 College of Arts and Sciences faculty members have publications named in the lawsuit, including College President Sian Leah Beilock. On Sep. 5, Anthropic agreed to a settlement of $3,000 per work per author, for a landmark total of $1.5 billion, the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. The final approval hearing is scheduled for April. The College declined to comment on Beilock’s eligibility for the settlement class.

Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies professor Matthew Garcia, a claimant in the suit, said administrators “have not been forthright” about the terms of the new AI partnership with affected faculty members...  History professor Bethany Moreton, a claimant in the class action suit, said she thought the College’s decision to partner with Anthropic, a company that “ripped off the published scholarly work of [the College’s] own faculty,” was “ironic.”

“We are faced with an agreement that has been struck beyond our ability to even know about it, let alone have any impact on it, and we’re scrambling to deal with the fallout at the level of classrooms,” Moreton said. AI “interrupts the slow, effortful and inefficient process of learning how to think,” Moreton added...

Full story at https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/01/college-announces-ai-partnership-with-anthropic-company-accused-of-plagiarizing-dartmouth-professors-publications.