Bangladesh – 7th Non-Fiction Book Fair ends 2023
But something the western publishing industry has done in the past couple of decades is to make an...
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Author: Mark Williams
Business as usual is not an option
The publishing industry can no more put the AI genie back in the bottle than it could the paperback genie, the word-processor genie, the email submissions genie, the social media genie, the self-publishing genie, the subscription genie and the genies for every other industry development that has been fought tooth and nail while screaming The Sky Is Falling, before slow but inevitable acceptance and even slower embrace.
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NYT lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft begs the question, why did negotiations fail?
Sadly the NYT law suit, however well intentioned and justified they might believe it to be, will only further muddy the waters and inhibit AI’s evolution. Good for the status quo, yes, but is it good for the future of the publishing industry in particular and society in general?
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Tunisia – Tunis International Book Fair 2024 dates announced
This year, 2023, the event was mired in controversy, not because of its first ever female director, Zahia Jouirou, Director of the Translation Institute, but due to books being seized by the authorities, and security issues.
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Apple is in talks with publishers to use their content to train GenAI models
Apple has been slow to jump on the AI bandwagon in any meaningful way, which has given rivals a...
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