Category: AI
Vietnam’s Publishing Sector Has New Rules and Wants AI Content Labelled
Vietnam’s amended Publishing Law, effective March 2027, introduces strict AI labelling, robust digital copyright safeguards, and streamlined administration.
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Anthropic Doesn’t Need Watermarks. The AI Detection Experts Are Here! 20 Tell-Tale Signs You’re Reading AI Slop, Even When A Human Wrote It
A sharp look at AI slop detection on LinkedIn, why watermarks miss the point, and how false flags hurt global authors.
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Delhi High Court Rules for OpenAI: The Third Major Fair-Use Verdict in 13 Months, and the Weakest Position Publishers Have Been In Yet
Delhi High Court denies ANI’s injunction against OpenAI, ruling AI training is fair dealing — the third major court to back AI labs in just over a year.
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Two Kinds of Money: What China’s AI Crackdown Reveals About Publishing’s Real AI Divide
China shut down AI companion apps on July 15 — the same day Bloomsbury quietly banked record profit from licensing its books to AI. The trade/academic divide, explained.
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Getty Images Fought AI In The Courts, Lost, Then Lucratively Partnered With It: Lessons For Book Publishing
Getty fought AI in court, lost the key ruling, then built OpenAI and Perplexity licensing deals. What book publishers should learn from the pivot.
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AI Data Centres and the Green Moral Panic: What Publishing Gets Wrong About AI’s Environmental Impact
The viral claims about AI data centres and water use are real but missing context. TNPS examines what the numbers actually mean, what the regulatory precedents are, and why publishing’s green panic is selective to the point of dishonesty.
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I Asked Eight AIs About the Amazon AI-Books Panic. They Couldn’t Agree How Big Amazon Is
A viral chart and a straightforward question, put to eight freemium AI tools. The answers didn’t just disagree on conclusions – they disagreed on basic, checkable facts, with total confidence, every time.
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The AI Books Panic Chart Is Real. The Panic Isn’t
The chart has been doing the rounds this month, and because it’s of the kind that travels well precisely because it needs no caption – a red wave climbing against a pink one, a single dotted line marking the release of ChatGPT-3.5 – it even managed to penetrate the darkness of power-crisis-ridden The Gambia.
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The Iron Maiden Piracy Myth – AI and Publishing’s Missed Opportunities
The debunked Iron Maiden piracy myth resurfaces on LinkedIn. A look at what really happened, why AI fact-checking failed, and what publishers should learn.
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Publishing must learn to walk and chew AI gum at the same time
Trade bodies decry AI training while quietly cutting costs with it. A response to Javier Celaya’s growth-strategy challenge — and where it leads.
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Why David Shelley Will Never Be AI Witchfinder General
Hachette CEO David Shelley’s caution against AI detection tools reflects hard-won wisdom from acquiring J.K. Rowling’s pseudonymous debut, The Cuckoo’s Calling.
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The Hand That Feeds: Publishing’s AI Hypocrisy Problem
Major publishers condemn AI as theft while deploying automation to cut narrator, translator, warehouse and operational jobs. TNPS examines the selective labour theory behind publishing’s AI moral framework.
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