Workers in a growing range of industries are calling for better protections against AI. More than 8,000 authors, including Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen and Viet Thanh Nguyen, signed onto a letter organized by the Authors Guild calling on AI to stop exploiting copyrighted works. The letter reads, in part, “These technologies mimic and regurgitate our language, stories, style, and ideas. Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the 'food' for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill.”
Meanwhile, Google has demonstrated their AI-powered news-writing tool, known as Genesis, to executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal.