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Authors Petition Publishers to Curtail Their Use of AI
- On June 27, more than 70 writers, among them Dennis Lehane and Lauren Groff, published an open letter on Lit Hub urging publishers to protect authors’ rights by refusing to publish books created with AI.
- The letter emerged amid legal rulings allowing AI companies to train models on copyrighted books without consent, intensifying concerns over AI's impact on creative professions.
- The authors urged publishers to commit to refraining from releasing AI-generated works, avoiding the substitution of staff with AI technologies, and employing exclusively human narrators for audiobooks to protect the publishing industry.
- The letter argued that AI-generated text lacks depth and quality because it is produced with minimal effort, highlighting that AI does not possess the human insight necessary for genuine storytelling.
- The campaign signals a critical moment for publishing as authors seek publisher support to protect livelihoods and maintain the art form amid AI's growing role.
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Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI
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 houses to promise “they will never release books that were created by machines.”Addressed to the “big five” U.S. publishers — Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan — as well as “other publishers of A…
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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers - Stephen's Lighthouse
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers “We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.” Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers Pro plugin deactivated or invalid The post Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers first appeared on Stephen's Lighthouse.
Publishers were also urged not to create fake authors to disguise machine text and not to replace publishing industry workers with AI systems.
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