A group of more than 70 authors including Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire and Lauren Groff released an open letter on Friday about the use of AI on the literary website Lit Hub. It asked publishing ...

The Authors Guild, the professional association representing published novelists and nonfiction writers, is set to offer to its 15,000 members a new certificate they can place directly on their book ...

A federal judge in California has dismissed parts of a copyright lawsuit brought by comedian Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other authors against OpenAI over its alleged use of ...

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If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it, and for good reason: It likely ingested all their works in the ...

In one of the largest copyright settlements involving generative artificial intelligence, Anthropic AI, a leading company in the generative AI space, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a ...

Authors scored another victory in their fight to protect their work from AI scraping when a New York federal judge denied OpenAI's request to dismiss authors' claims that text generated by OpenAI's ...

If you think the ESSENCE Authors Stage is just for the quiet crowd, think again. This is where words move the culture—and sometimes the crowd too. Whether you’re a lit lover, a memoir junkie or just ...

Authors are celebrating a “historic” settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic’s AI training data. On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that ...

You know those little quotes on book jackets that say something nice about the pages within? Publishers have long required authors to obtain testimonials or “blubs” from other authors to help their ...

An author who left negative Goodreads reviews on the debut works of other authors has been dropped by her publisher and agent following uproar online. On Monday, U.S. publisher Del Rey Books announced ...

During last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, books written by people of color climbed the best-seller lists. Was last summer a vision of equality to come for the publishing industry? Or a flash ...