Bestselling thriller writer John Grisham says the "threat" to his profession from AI cannot be "truly appreciated. explained or predicted". Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult and George RR Martin are among those joining the recent group legal action. Grisham told BBC One's Breakfast programme: "It's my turn to file suit."
Existing models may not satisfy writers, who claim theft by large language models is multi-layered, creating derivative works, and fundamental to the technology s success, finds Sarah Speight.
Writer and journalist Rory Cellan-Jones recently stumbled upon a memoir on Amazon that he had co-authored, featuring a cover design created by an unfamiliar individual.