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'Unlicensed, unrestricted AI training could destroy the ecosystem for books' — quote of the day by the Authors Guild on the sourcing of training data

Many of today's widely used AI systems have been trained on material sourced from books [...]

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AI might undermine one of the better alternatives to the Kindle

Kobo, a Rakuten subsidiary that sells ebooks and ereaders, has built its name on being a more open and author-friendly version of Amazon Kindle. However, a recent change to the company's self-pub [...]

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The best ereaders for 2025

There are really two types of ereaders: Dedicated ebook/audiobook devices or slabs that are more akin to small tablets with E Ink screens. In the first category, the competition is really between Amaz [...]

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Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text

The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts. Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT flagged human-written articles as AI-generated. [...]

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British authors want Meta to answer for alleged copyright infringement

Creatives in the UK are once again speaking out against AI developers accessing copyrighted material. The Society of Authors have published an open letter calling for UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy [...]

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Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training

Two authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The plainti [...]

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Meta wins AI copyright case filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors

Federal Judge Vince Chhabria has ruled in favor of Meta over the 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, who sued the company for training its large language model on their published work without [...]

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Microsoft trained its MAI models on unlicensed web data despite promising "enterprise grade, clean and commercially licensed data"

Microsoft sells its LLM training approach as different from other AI companies. It isn't. The company trained its new MAI models partly on unlicensed web data like Common Crawl, despite claiming [...]

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Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages

Amazon just introduced an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. The appropriately-named Kindle Translate is being advertised as a resource for authors that self publish [...]

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Baseten takes on hyperscalers with new AI training platform that lets you own your model weights

Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean [...]

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