Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

An Open letter Writers, including Lauren Graph, Lev Gransman, RF Kuang, Dennis Lehan, and Jeffrey Magu, have been urged to limit the use of AI tools to book publishers, for example only human audio bookkeepers promise to recruit.

The letter argues that AI companies have “steal” the work of writers by the organizations: “Instead of paying a small percentage of money that our job earns for them, someone else will be paid for the technology built on our unpaid labor.”

Among other commitments, writers call for publishers to “promise that they will never publish books made by machines” and “never replace their human staff with AI equipment or decrease their positions on AI monitors.”

The initial letter was already signed by a fascinating list of authors, NPR reports It was added 24 hours after it was initially published 1,100 signature was added.

Writers are also suing against technology agencies using their books to train AI models, but federal judges To deal with significant injury This suit At the beginning of this week.