MARY RASENBERGER
John Grisham, George RR Martin, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights
The lawsuit joins several others from writers, source-code owners and visual artists against generative AI providers. There are similar lawsuits pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI.
John Grisham, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights
The proposed class-action lawsuit filed late on Tuesday by the Authors Guild joins several others from writers, source-code owners and visual artists against generative AI providers. In addition to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, similar lawsuits are pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI over the data used to train their AI systems.
Amazon to require some authors to disclose the use of AI material
Amazon has introduced new regulations requiring authors to disclose if their books contain artificial intelligence (AI) material before selling them on the e-book program. The move comes after complaints from the Authors Guild, who feared that AI-generated books could crowd out traditional works and deceive consumers.
AI's inroads in publishing touch off fear, and creativity
Publishing is facing a new disruption that is likely to be far more wide-ranging and transformative: the rise of artificial intelligence.
‘AI owes its existence to our writings’: 8,000 writers demand compensation from tech companies for use of copyrighted material
The letter was penned by The Authors Guild, a union consisting of 12,000 members. It was addressed to six CEOs, including Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, as well as the owners of ChatGPT parent company OpenAI, Microsoft, and IBM.
ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
There were over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author, including "How to Write and Create Content Using ChatGPT," "The Power of Homework" and poetry collection "Echoes of the Universe." And the number is rising daily.
