A group of more than 70 writers including Dennis Lehahen, Gregory Maguire and Lauren Groff released Open letter Hub on Friday about the use of AI on the literary website. It asked to publish homes, “They will never release books made by machines.”

“Big Five” US Publishers – Penguin, Random House, Harper Collins, Simon & Shuster, Hatchet Book Group, and Macmillan addressed “other US publishers” along with Macmillan, the letter signed more than 1,100. Petition with In less than 24 hours. Famous signators are the pair Picolt, Olivi Blake and Paul Trample after the release of the letter.

The letter includes a list of direct requests to the publishers, in which AI may already occur – or may be used in publication soon. This asks them to avoid publishing books written using the AI ​​tool built on copyright materials without consent or compensation of the authors, to avoid the publication house employees completely or partially with the AI ​​Tool, and only to recover the human Audiobook tale between other requests.

“This writing that produces AI seems cheap because it is cheap. It sounds simple because it is simple to produce. It’s the whole point,” the letter states. “AI is a very powerful tool, to live here, with the ability of real social benefits – but replacement of arts and artists is not one of them.”

A focus suit – so far

So far, the authors have expressed their displeasure with the negative effects of AI on their work by launching cases against AI companies instead of addressing most publication homes. Ta-Nehis Kotts, Michael Chabon, Junot Diaz and comedians are among the biggest names involved in the ongoing copyright violation cases against AI players.

Some of these cases are already starting to present the ruling: earlier this week, the federal judges preside in two such cases. Govern Among the Defendants Anthropic AI and Meta, potentially AI companies to train their large language models on copyright work to provide legal rights under proper use – until they legally receive copies of those functions.

Young adult fiction writer Ronhach Robinson, who goes from Penn name Relay Redgate, and one of the organizers of the letter and petition, said that these rules only feel more important to the need for security measures.

“AI with courts allows access to copyright texts as proper use, the next – and possibly the last -defense line should be the publisher” he said. “Publishing houses to stop publishing houses to exclude their writers from existence, publishing nothing to exclude their authors from existence, by promising not to generate internal competitive titles without publishers. Hopefully, publishers will work to protect writers and industry employees, especially, from competitive and labor-related threats, AI.”

Existence

The authors said that the “existential threat” of AI is not just about copyright violations. Books of copying It seems that it is written by AI and is associated with real authors who have not written them, in recent years the Amazon and other platforms have been spread.

The rise of AI audio production within the publication is another major threat in the letter. Many writers make additional funds, stating their own books. And the rise of machine statements and translations is a more concern for human voice actors and translators. For example, Major Audio Books Publisher Shravya recently audible Announced A partnership with publishers to expand the statement and translation offerings.

Audible CEO Bob Karigan said as part of the announcement, “Audible believes that AI has represented an important opportunity to expand the availability of audibooks with the vision of offering every book to customers in every language with our continuous investments in premium original materials.” “We will be able to bring more stories in life – helping the creators reach new audiences, while the listeners across the world can reach out to extraordinary books that cannot reach their ears otherwise.”

Robinson admitted that the publishers had taken up to help the authors to protect the authors.

Robinson said, “In many individual contracts, there are now AI opt-out clauses in an attempt to exclude books from AI training dataset, which is very good.” But he said that publishers should do a lot to protect their writers against the AI ​​attack. “The major concerns are that publishers can create their own generative AI titles that can swallow the publishing landscape, or to editor the editorial workers AI tools, or like this,” she said.

All five publication nominated in the NPR letter reached the houses, and received a response before the time limit of the publication.

“Simon and Shoster takes these concerns seriously,” spokesperson Susanna Lawrence said in a statement. “We are actively engaged in protecting our authors’ intellectual property rights.”