Insurance for the Machines, but None for the Minds?
You ever notice how fast the insurance world is adapting to robots, satellites, AI chatbots, and billion-dollar clouds, but when it comes to protecting real human creators, suddenly everyone looks the other way?
Let’s spin this forward.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google—they’re all being sued left and right. The accusations? Training their models on copyrighted books, articles, blogs, Substack rants (yes, even mine), without permission. Some lawsuits might be viable, some not. That’s up to the courts.
But here’s the kicker:
These companies will spend millions in insurance premiums to protect themselves against claims of IP infringement.
The authors,the ones who actually wrote the words, get nothing.
No insurance company walks up to the struggling journalist or Substack author and says:
“Hey, want to insure your revenue stream against AI scraping? We’ll cover you if your words get cloned, re-mixed, and spat back out without credit.”
Nope. That product doesn’t exist. Not yet.
Imagine if it did.
Anti-Plagiarism Coverage: a policy that pays you when your original work is replicated and monetized without your permission. A sort of collision coverage for your creativity.
Sounds fair, doesn’t it?
But the insurance industry isn’t built on fairness, it’s built on delay, denial, and profit.
So Jack Hapsburg asks the question:
If Anthropic can insure their exposure for billions, why can’t writers insure their creations for hundreds?
Maybe it’s time someone turned the tables.
Call-to-Action (Jack voice)
“Got denied or lowballed on a claim? Good. You just found your people.
Sign up with Inssux; where even writers get to fight for their damn words.”