One Open letter From writers, including Lauren Groff, Lev Grosman, RF Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Jeffrey Maguire, pledge to promise book publishers to limit their use of AI Tools, for example to pledge to hire human audiobook narrators.
The letter argued that the authors’ work has been “stolen” by AI companies: “A small percentage of wealth we have for our work instead of paying authors, someone else will be paid for technology manufactured on our unpaid labor.”
Among other commitments, the author says for the publishers to “asks a vow that they will never release books made by the machine” and “” will not replace their human employees with AI tools or degrade their positions in the AI monitor. “
While the initial letter was already signed by the effective list of writers, NPR report It initially added another 1,100 signature in 24 hours of being published.
Writer is also prosecuting companies for using their books to train AI model, but Federal Judge Important ward For those cases Earlier this week.