2023-08-08
Watching weird tech people get seduced by mega corp boldness into believing the lie that all art is “content” and like “content” produced by novices, is unprotected and available for use has been very 😃 This guy is about to get sued by all ten of the largest publishers at once.
Jane Friedman
An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint
Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
Watching weird tech people get seduced by mega corp boldness into believing the lie that all art is “content” and like “content” produced by novices, is unprotected and available for use has been very 😃 This guy is about to get sued by all ten of the largest publishers at once.
TechCrunch
Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses
Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words R...