(The Times also sued OpenAI and Microsoft last year, claiming copyright infringement of news content used by A.I. systems.) By endorsing Created by Humans’ platform, the Authors Guild is in a ...

She explained that the 22 TouchPoint titles now on Amazon’s website are books that had been previously signed, and that Williams maintains that she has not signed on any new authors since July 2023.

Any of these authors also have a complicated relationship ... language model (LLM)—"books are actually more important than web data," one email chillingly admitted. Meta staff turned to LibGen ...