Ms. Bartz is a novelist and one of the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic. In August 2023, alone in my studio apartment, I learned that my most precious possessions had been stolen.

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...