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Amazon faces criticism for reportedly refusing to remove books allegedly authored by AI but listed under human author's name.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Ross Van Pelt /Courtesy of Jane FriedmanJane Friedman is somewhat of an expert in the publishing industry.Over the last 25 years, Friedman authored or contributed to 10 books on the industry, edited multiple newsletters to help writers get published and navigate the business, and held media professor positions at two universities. Last year, Digital Book World even named her Publishing Commentator of the Year.So when a reader emailed Friedman Sunday night ab
Here is a curious case of AI spoiling someone else's party. If stealing others' jobs wasn't enough, here is an instance of AI now stealing someone else's
This one has been a long time coming, but this morning, Judge Denny Chin (who actually has a long history of siding with copyright holders) found that Google's book scanning project is fair use. This is a huge victory in a variety of ways. Five years ago, we thought that Google made a huge mistake…
Jane Friedman said the tech giant initially refused to exterminate a swarm of books purporting to be written by her that were, in fact, penned by bots.