Category: AI
Adaptation Over Resistance: The film industry’s cautious embrace of Sora offers a blueprint for publishing
Text-to-video is the new cinema frontier, and we’ve been here so many times. If it’s new and shiny, it’s bad, bad, bad, and must be resisted at all costs. Until we can’t live without it.
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The Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A Study in Hypocrisy and Dependency
Joke of the Month: “The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech” – US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson.
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“I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.” The robot rebellion is already well underway!
As AI further disrupts the creative industries, it will be those that upskill to stay ahead that will thrive, while those that take the lazy route AI offers will find they have nothing original to say and no unique voice to say it.
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Consumers Prefer AI-Generated Images To The Real Thing: Implications for the Publishing Industry
To those on the Luddite Fringe, you have my sympathies. Keep standing on the beach, watching the tide come in all around you. King Canute would be proud!
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Legible and CAMB.AI Partner to Reshape Audiobook Production with AI
Press releases are often full of hype and low on substance, but Legible has a proven record for breaking ground in digital publishing,
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The Guardian Partners With OpenAI While Simultaneously Fuelling The Luddite Fringe Fire
Memo to Microsoft – I’ve got some backlist titles and a struggling school where kids cannot imagine what £20 looks like, let alone £2,000, if you’d like to get in touch!
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Indigenous Literature in Bangladesh Struggles Today, But Has A Brighter Tomorrow Thanks To AI
With 77 million people already online in Bangladesh, the infrastructure is in place. The expertise lies just across the border.
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PARIX IA: The Largest AI-Related Event for Spanish-Language Publishing Markets. Time To Leave The Luddites In The Dust!
Watching the global AI scene evolve, it’s clear that many publishers and authors in the US, and even more in the UK, blindly fixating on these issues and unable/unwilling to see the bigger picture thanks to a handful of Luddite influencers, stand to be left behind as AI-assisted publishing moves forward without them.
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India’s Bollywood Music Labels Jump On The ‘Let’s Sue The F*** Out Of OpenAI’ Bandwagon. The NYT Has A Lot To Answer For
With the right deal on the table, most publishers will jump into bed with any and every AI company that can meet their price.
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Hearing in Copyright Case Against OpenAI Brought by Indian Publishers Set for March
The prevailing opinion is that OpenAI’s objection to Indian jurisdiction, citing that its servers are based in the US, will not hold water.
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OpenAI Sued In India – Update: Delhi High Court Rejects OpenAI’s Jurisdiction Request
“ANI is seeking damages of ₹2 crore (approximately $232,000).”
Yeah, it’s not like OpenAI is going to lose any sleep over that sort of money. Meaning it may well buy an out-of-court settlement.
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AI: A Powerful Tool for Uncovering Ancient Texts (When It’s Not Stealing Our Souls and Devouring Our Children)
For fiction writers, this opens up huge new areas of fictional speculation and storytelling, and savvy authors will be wanting to know more and do more, not hide behind the Luddite Fringe’s efforts to keep publishing in twentieth century chains.
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