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November 4, 2023
A privacy-professionals gathering yielded we’ve-got-this assurances but left room for doubt.
August 9, 2023
(1) PROSECRAFT NUKED FROM SPACE. A site called Prosecraft stirred tremendous controversy yesterday once authors realized thousands of their books were used by the site without their permission. Also, people believe their texts are being used to train AI. Benji Smith’s initial attempt to skate around the controversy was to tell writers he would remove
August 9, 2023
Author Jane Friedman discovered several books on Amazon falsely attributed her, which are believe to be AI-generated. The books were eventually removed, but the issue at large remains.
August 8, 2023
Amazon resisted a removal request, citing lack of "trademark registration numbers."