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June 29, 2012 - A group of authors, including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire, recently released an open letter calling on book publishers to commit to limiting the use of artificial intelligence tools, such as committing to hiring only human voice-overs. an open letter calling on book publishers to commit to limiting the use of AI tools, such as committing to only hiring humans to voice audiobooks. The open letter points out that writers are being...

May 23, 2011 - Tech media outlet The Verge published a blog post yesterday (May 22) reporting that the News / Media Alliance (News / Media Alliance) slammed Google's AI Mode as a move to deprive publishers of traffic and revenue, calling it "theft". At Tuesday's I/O developer conference, Google announced the rollout of AI Mode to all users in the U.S. The feature is embedded directly into a new tab on the search page, where users type in a query and the system generates an AI response with a link to the relevant...

On Friday local time, the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) said it had filed a copyright suit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court, Reuters reported. In an interview, Pranav Gupta, the federation's secretary general, said, "Our claim is clear: we are asking the court to prevent OpenAI from continuing to access our copyrighted content." The lawsuit focuses on book summaries generated by ChatGPT. "If OpenAI is unwilling to enter into a grant with us...

TollBit, a startup focused on "content licensing," recently warned news publishers that several artificial intelligence companies are circumventing common web standards used by publishers to prevent scraped content and using the scraped content to train generative AI systems, Reuters reported on Saturday. The news comes amid a public dispute between AI search startup Perplexity and Forbes over the same web standards. Currently, there is a broader debate between technology and media companies about the value of content in the age of generative AI. TollBit has warned news publishers that several artificial intelligence companies are circumventing common web standards used by publishers to prevent scraped content and using the scraped content to train generative AI systems. TollBit has warned news publishers that several artificial intelligence companies are circumventing common web standards used by publishers to prevent scraped content and using the scraped content to train generative AI systems. TollBit has warned news publishers that it is ...

On April 30, local time, eight U.S. newspaper publishers filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in a federal court in New York, claiming that the latter has been reusing articles created by the publishers in its generative AI products without permission, and blaming the publishers themselves for inaccuracies in the information, CNBC reported. According to a complaint filed by eight publishers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ChatGPT has been misappropriating millions of the publishers' copyrighted articles "without permission and without payment". The lawsuit...

Google is quietly working on deals with select publishers to create news content using new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Adweek reports. The partnership agreements, reportedly worth tens of thousands of dollars per year, appear to be part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a six-year program that provides media literacy programs, fact-checking tools, and other resources to news organizations. However, the move involves generative AI content creation, which could be controversial. Image source Pexels reports that the program is currently aimed at a "handful" of small publishers, and that testing the tools will allow for the creation of...