The Bookseller - News - Thousands of authors including Atwood, Egan and Picoult sign AI open letter

The letter calls on Sam Altman, c.e.o. of OpenAI; Sundar Pichai, c.e.o. of Alphabet; Mark Zuckerberg, c.e.o. of Meta; Emad Mostaque, c.e.o. of Stability AI; Arvind Krishna, c.e.o. of IBM; and Satya Nadella, c.e.o. of Microsoft to "mitigate the damage to our profession" done by AI.

It calls on them to obtain permission for use of authors' copyrighted material in their generative AI programs, compensate writers fairly for the past and ongoing use of their works in generative AI programs and compensate writers fairly for the use of their works in AI output, whether or not the outputs are infringing under current law.