What is changing for novelists, self-published authors and the book business as AI moves into writing and publishing. Every story links to the reporting it draws on. How we report · Writing guides
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an uncharacterized DNA repeat system in bacteriophages that researchers say resembles CRISPR, though the finding is unpublished and unreplicated.
A Carolinian column traces how Shy Girl went from self-published horror novel to Hachette release to cancellation once readers concluded it was AI slop.
Grant, author of The Ended World, tells Book Riot her novel's plot about a seemingly conscious AI now echoes real debates among publications and tech firms.
The audio fiction platform says Sherpa's agents track characters and plot across long-running stories while creators keep control of decisions.
Jane Friedman's site publishes exercises to keep prose from sounding generic, while separate reports detail AI's e-waste and executives' long history of regulation calls.
University of Washington researchers analysed 500,000 ChatGPT prompts and found a small group of power users driving heavy demand for AI-generated stories and erotica.
A Stony Brook-led study of 14,419 self-published titles found Amazon's catalog grew 38 times over three years while revenue grew only 9 times.
