Category: AI
The Em Dash: An AI Give-Away or Graceful Punctuation? Or, Is TNPS Written With AI, Redux
Can the use of AI ever be anything other than an extension of a writer’s own talent? And if the quality endures, should the provenance matter at all?
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Publishing Advisory: Argentina’s Buenos Aries International Book Fair Professional Conferences – Two Not To Miss
In the US, writers orgs have moved to meet AI midway, pragmatically recognising issues like copyright and compensation but also recognising the genuine opportunities AI offers writers. In the UK the language is incendiary.
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Gor Blimey, Guv’nor! Google Gemini ‘as ownly gone’n train’d its AI on Mary bloody Poppins! (Not an April 1 prank, sadly)
Most AIs know their centre from their center and their colour from their color, although when will they grasp it’s uncivilised to say civilized!
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Human: Good. AI: Bad. Perception, Prejudice, and the Creative Landscape in the Age of AI
AI-produced audio slammed for its low quality was actually created by humans. Luddite Fringe, look away now!
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Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic in the News, but the Existential Threat Looming Over Publishing is the Trump Executive Order
Be careful what we wish for. The possibility of an executive order granting broad exemptions to AI companies from copyright claims poses an existential threat to the publishing industries as they currently operate.
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Taylor & Francis To Use AI For Translation. Society of Authors Gets Self-Righteous Again. Philip Pullam Was Spot On
Needless to say the SoA was like a lamb with two tails as it gleefully revelled in the Meta piracy site news.
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Springer Nature’s Curie: an example of how AI is transforming the publishing industry not by stealing jobs but by creating new opportunities while improving quality
Curie, an AI-powered scientific writing assistant tailored for researchers, especially those for whom English is not a first language.
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Adaptation Over Resistance: The film industry’s cautious embrace of Sora offers a blueprint for publishing
Text-to-video is the new cinema frontier, and we’ve been here so many times. If it’s new and shiny, it’s bad, bad, bad, and must be resisted at all costs. Until we can’t live without it.
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The Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A Study in Hypocrisy and Dependency
Joke of the Month: “The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech” – US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson.
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“I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.” The robot rebellion is already well underway!
As AI further disrupts the creative industries, it will be those that upskill to stay ahead that will thrive, while those that take the lazy route AI offers will find they have nothing original to say and no unique voice to say it.
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Consumers Prefer AI-Generated Images To The Real Thing: Implications for the Publishing Industry
To those on the Luddite Fringe, you have my sympathies. Keep standing on the beach, watching the tide come in all around you. King Canute would be proud!
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Legible and CAMB.AI Partner to Reshape Audiobook Production with AI
Press releases are often full of hype and low on substance, but Legible has a proven record for breaking ground in digital publishing,
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