I got an email from an American law firm called ClaimsHero. “We screened three shadow library indexes (LibGen, Z-Library and Books3) against U.S. Copyright Office records. These titles matched in at least one of them and came back as likely yours: THE XENOCIDE MISSION (TX0006929101) Books taken from those libraries may have been used to train commercial AI models without a license …”

So they’re offering to represent me in a claim. “No upfront costs, a 35% fee shared with co-counsel, and we are paid only if you are.”

I did some searching. They’re a real law firm, certainly more real than the umpteen AI-generated book clubs, literary review editors and other fakes with Gmail addresses that bombard my inbox.

I did some more searching and found this from the Authors Guild, the US equivalent of the Society of Authors: https://authorsguild.org/news/claimshero-and-anthropic-settlement-what-authors-need-to-know/

And this from Writer Beware:
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/11/07/predatory-opt-outs-the-speculators-come-for-the-anthropic-copyright-settlement/

Both relate specifically to ClaimsHero and the Anthropic settlement; in fairness to ClaimsHero, their approach to me said nothing about Anthropic (for which I already know I’m not eligible). But still.

Thanks, but no thanks.