Category: AI
Macmillan Education launches AI tool for teachers
But unless teachers understand prompting they are likely to not get the best from AI and offer negative feedback, so this could backfire spectacularly. I’d like to know more about how teachers are going to be trained to use AI effectively.
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NaNoWriMo is a procrastinator’s dream. But it’s got AI right. And the new gatekeepers are worried
The new gatekeepers are not the publishers but the established authors looking to protect the status quo and keep the market as non-competitive as possible.
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Wiley to pocket $44 million this year from AI deals but rightly says no to author opt-outs
Just who do authors think is in charge here? Traditionally, publishers do not give authors control over where their books are sold or in what format, or what else the publisher might do to maximise revenues. If we authors don’t like that, we can self-publish.
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UK’s Society of Authors asks AI companies to tell them which books were used to train LLMs because the SoA hasn’t got any evidence
The SoA believes they have such a strong legal case that they have, after several months choosing the right words, written to the tech companies with a seven day ultimatum (one hundred and eleven days to write the letter, seven days to comply – hey, that’s fair!) to acknowledge receipt.
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Audible’s “first AI-powered search for audiobooks” fuel unfounded fears about the future of human narration
AI narration of audiobooks, while understandably initially perceived as a threat, can actually offer several benefits to human narrators, if they are willing to embrace the opportunity unfolding.
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Ghana prepares to embrace AI in publishing while western Luddites fight to hold back the industry
Much of the world has simply skipped the entire landline/PC/dialup era and almost overnight gone straight from never dreaming of owning a phone and never having seen a computer, to having a 5G smartphone in their hands.
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No, the Creatives’ Rights Alliance does not speak for 500,000 people. Nicola Solomon needs to heed her own demands about consultation
And one has to wonder how it is that all these organisations have joined the Creatives’ Rights Alliance at the same time. Should we be reporting that to the competition authorities?
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As more academic publishers embrace AI, trade publishers need to get off the fence
Curiously I’m not seeing many big publishers writing to their authors and asking if they want their publisher to continue to stick its head in the sand so the authors miss out on all these new revenue streams.
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AI and RROs – we’ll profit more if we move with the times
As the pendulum slowly swings from the knee-jerk AI-is-evil non-think camp to nuanced evaluations of what benefits AI brings to the industry table, Charkin offers a road map to find the road out of Ludditeland.
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Ingram’s 2000s version of AI bans Thad McIlroy book on 2020s AI in publishing
This twentieth-century sledge-hammer to crack a nut approach to policing its catalogue flies in the face of the company’s otherwise deserved image as being at the forefront of the publishing revolution.
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Another HarperCollins summer party on the AI fence
Big daddy Robert Thomson has already made clear News Corp is going to embrace AI in all its glory, so better to take the reins than be dragged along regardless.
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“Publishers are already using way too much AI” (and other nonsense)
Just as AI is not to be afforded copyright protection by human law, nor is it to be afforded the assumption of innocence until proven guilty in the court of human opinion. At least, not by writers who think their job is above the law of Darwinian natural selection and survival of the fittest.
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