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Staff reportLet Freedom Read. A fREADom Festival at Covington's Roebling Point Books & Coffee on Saturday is a festival of banned books and free expression.October 1-7 is Banned Books Week, an

This summer, The Atlantic published several stories on a pirated trove of more than 180,000 ebooks that were used to train AIs models.

This summer, The Atlantic published several stories on a pirated trove of more than 180,000 ebooks that were used to train AIs models.

This summer, The Atlantic published several stories on a pirated trove of more than 180,000 ebooks that were used to train AIs models.

While the WGA has secured a deal that provides some protections to writers, there are no regulations on the training or utilization of AI.

ChatGPT has been the internet's favorite new toy. The large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI purports to be able to write just about anything you can imagine needing,...

Consent, credit and compensation. Those were the terms that SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and Writers Guild of America West negotiating committee member John August called for in order for guild members’ work, likenesses and brands to be used to train artificial intelligence systems. At a hearing before the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, …

(1) GOOD NEWS. My mother is back to her usual self and physically has regained enough ground for the doctor to send her home to the skilled nursing facility where she lives. She’ll go back tonight. And it’s hard to break the Scroll habit when I have a couple hours left to work on one!

The discovery that someone is making significant money from essentially copying and pasting hard work is a nasty gut-punch, writes Kirstin Innes.

Meta's LLaMA chatbot was trained on a database of 200,000 books, including mine, without pay. How should authors like me think about that?