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A group of book sellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas book ratings law.

Will legal action force AI companies to change how they train their programs?

Frustrated by the lack of government action against generative-AI companies, some creatives are filing lawsuits to protect their work from being used without consent

One AI professor says that if OpenAI can’t detect AI-written text then ‘there's probably no hope for outsiders like Turnitin’.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a book ratings law that will take effect on Sep. 1, 2023. Publishers and book sellers are filing a lawsuit in an attempt to block the law.

AUSTIN — A coalition including Texas bookstores, national booksellers, authors and publishers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a new law they say amounts to "state censorship."

Plaintiffs contend HB 900 infringes on free speech

HB 900 was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year. It is set to go into effect on Sept. 1 and requires book vendors to assign ratings.

The authors argue that AI companies have been using millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry as "food" for training their AI systems, without compensating the creators.

Valerie Koehler says that if her book shop is forced to comply with a new state law regulating public school literature, she might go out of business.