US EditionAuthors Petition Publishers to Curtail Their Use of AI
UNITED STATES, JUN 27 – Over 70 prominent authors demand publishers refuse AI-written books and protect creative jobs amid legal rulings allowing AI training on copyrighted works, with over 1,100 petition signatures.
- On June 27, over 70 authors released an open letter on Lit Hub urging publishers to promise never to publish AI-created books or replace staff with AI tools.
- The letter responded to a June 22 federal ruling allowing AI developers to train models using copyrighted books without authors' consent.
- Authors expressed that AI writing feels cheap and simple, threatens publishing as a human art form, and that their stolen work trains AI without payment or acknowledgment.
- The letter asked major publishers including Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster to pledge not to publish AI-written books and to hire only human audiobook narrators, gaining over 1,100 signatures in less than 24 hours.
- The authors warn that without publisher safeguards, AI could displace human creators and undermine the literary industry despite AI’s potential societal benefits.
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