authors
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(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on…
The Guild is asking publishers to more equitably divvy up Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement for certain claims, noting many houses will receive large payouts while most authors will get nothing more than “the ability…
The acclaimed author of ‘The Last Samurai’ recently saw her 2018 short story collection, ‘Some Trick,’ as well as her 2022 novella, ‘The English Understand Wool,’ released in Spanish as part of a single collection
LibGen in the OpenAI lawsuit: the authors' brief says OpenAI trained GPT-3 on pirated books, told Bill Gates, then deleted them. OpenAI says fair use.