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The developer behind AO3.life says he sold about eleven audiobooks and has apologised to authors whose work was scraped without consent
A Guardian first-person piece links personalised scam emails to industrial scam farms, as authors weigh how AI trained on their own books is used against them.
The Content Bookstore event features two Carleton College computer science professors and MomsRising's chief technology officer, Nate White.
Chief executive Anna Ganley says the society will pause and take members' views back to charter partners, with the dispute due to be discussed at the November 19 AGM.
Amazon's Ask this Book cannot be switched off, TechBullion reports, while Google Play Books lets authors disable its companion and startups pay rights holders.
The News/Media Alliance had written to Mark Zuckerberg demanding the terms be revised, warning of severe harm to publishers over AI scraping.
The house found AI-related markers in file metadata but says it may never know how much of Thelyson Orelien's debut was generated by AI.
The Prix Pascal, opening for submissions 2 November, requires French-language writers to disclose which AI models and prompts they used.
Thélyson Orélien has ended work compiling evidence about how he wrote his novel, his publisher Éditions du Boréal says, leaving the AI allegations unresolved.
At least 15 works by Korean authors were among millions of pirated books Anthropic downloaded, as the firm's $1.5 billion settlement payments prepare to begin next month.
Éditions du Boréal says it cannot fully verify the origins of C'était ça ou mourir but found no convincing evidence to justify withdrawing it
More than 80 publishers have joined the SPUR coalition to set AI licensing standards, as USA Today's parent sues OpenAI over copyright.
Wired reports HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette use AI for rejection letters, marketing copy and cover art, prompting staff pushback.
Some residents named on form letters fighting a Bay Area electric heat pump rule say they never approved the AI-generated messages sent in their names.
Authors First, backed by more than $10 million in seed funding, says AI tools let it adapt novels like Conn Iggulden's Genghis Khan epic without studio-size budgets.
Writer and spiritual director Charlotte Donlon says literary institutions lack structures to tend to writers' souls amid AI-driven anxiety
A federal judge dismissed Chegg and Penske Media's antitrust suits even as Google pays about 100 publishers for AI content in a pilot program, The Verge and Reuters reported.
Thélyson Orélien was pulled from the Goncourt long list after a pseudonymous account said an AI detector flagged his novel as fully machine-written.
The Academie Goncourt removed Thelyson Orelien's debut from its longlist after an X account said AI-detection software found the novel almost entirely machine-written.
Anthropic's chatbot flagged an uncharacterized DNA repeat system in bacteriophages that researchers say resembles CRISPR, though the finding is unpublished and unreplicated.
