Generative AI is transforming the publishing industry. Authors are pushing back on a variety of fronts, most recently with an open letter to publishers asking them to curtail their use of the technology. (Getty stock photo.) imaginima/Getty Images
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A group of more than 70 authors including Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire and Lauren Groff released an open letter on Friday about the use of AI on the literary website Lit Hub. It asked publishing houses to promise “they will never release books that were created by machines.”
Addressed to the “big five” U.S. publishers — Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins,