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Who owns the words that trained AI? Courts are still figuring it out
A $1.5 billion ruling against Anthropic and a string of unresolved lawsuits show just how far copyright law is from catching up with the technology reshaping publishing.
AI Companies May Be Destroying Rare Books to Train Their Models
Booksellers are raising the alarm that AI firms are buying up physical books, including rare and out-of-print copies, then shredding them to scan the pages cheaply and fast.
AI-written short stories rated higher quality than human ones in new study
A study of 1,682 adults found that stories written by ChatGPT scored better on quality than comparable human-authored work. Researchers think simpler, cleaner writing may be driving the result.
A $2 million crime novel deal just collapsed over AI writing fears
A debut thriller was pulled from sale days after a 14-publisher bidding war pushed offers past $2 million. The agent says she can no longer verify how the manuscript was written.
Typos on Purpose: How Writers Are Fighting Back Against AI Prose
Novelists, editors and marketers are deliberately bending grammar, ditching em dashes and leaning into first-person mess to prove a human wrote the words.
Bloomsbury to collect millions from Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright settlement with authors
The Harry Potter publisher has 14,087 titles in the deal, with roughly $3,000 proposed per title. It is one of the largest payouts so far in the long legal fight over AI training data.
Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training, calling it one of history's biggest copyright violations
Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier claim Google used millions of copyrighted books without permission to build its Gemini AI. A federal lawsuit filed in New York could reshape how AI companies gather training data.