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A day after the UK signed the first international treaty addressing the risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) has called on the UK government to go further and protect "creators" from a "mass violation of their rights".

OpenAI claimed it's "impossible" to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An "ethically created" large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise.

The conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for publishing and the wider creative industries is very much live. Over the last year, every corner of our industry has been confronted with the colossal innovation in the generative capability of this new technology, with little known as to how it will impact our sector.

Authors have now joined the growing ranks of concerned creators suing tech developers over their much-hyped generative AI technology.  Read more

The backlash to Puffin Books' decision to update Roald Dahl's children's books has been swift and largely derisive. The publisher has been accused of "absurd censorship", "corporate safetyism" and "cultural vandalism."  Read more