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Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Artificial Intelligence and the Law
The law is usually reactive at best to questions of new technology. That’s still true with AI, but an extensive amount of work is underway to chart an applicable regulatory landscape, explains lawyer Duncan Calow.
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Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Adopting AI and Assisting Publishers at knk Software
At this Frankfurt Fair, knk Software is set to introduce several exciting features and enhancements with built-in AI to help clients boost productivity.
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Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: AI and the Arabic Book Market
The burgeoning technology is poised to transform the entire Arabic book life cycle, from creation to distribution.
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Conferences
Book Biz Fixtures Were Bullish on AI at PW's Webinar
Book publishing and technology experts alike took a long look at the fast-developing AI technologies causing a stir in the industry and determined that, despite concerns, they ultimately augured positive change for the book business.
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Soapbox
Generative AI vs. Copyright
Publishing attorney Lloyd J. Jassin examines what artificial intelligence will mean for the publishing industry.
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Publisher News
More Authors, Including Michael Chabon, Sue AI Developers Over Copyright
The claims in the new suits are nearly identical to claims in two previous author class actions filed over the summer by writers, alleging the companies used unauthorized copies of their books to train their AI models.
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Trade Shows
Programming Announced for PW's New AI Conference
The full schedule for Artificial Intelligence: Revolution and Opportunity in Trade Publishing, an online conference to be hosted by Publishers Weekly on September 27, has been announced.
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Content / e-books
Amazon Issues New AI Guidelines for Its KDP Platform
With concerns mounting over the impact AI-generated books are having on the e-book market, Amazon will now require KDP users to inform it if AI-generated content was used in the making of a book published on the platform.
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BookLife
Making Artificial Intelligence Work for You
Alesha Brown explains how using AI wisely can benefit your platform.
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Content / e-books
Generative AI Technology Can Support Book Publishing
From personal productivity to scalable applications, generative AI technology has plenty to offer publishing if used correctly.
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Copyright
Authors Join the Brewing Legal Battle Over AI
Two new class action copyright lawsuits ramp up the growing scrutiny of large language models and other generative artificial intelligence tools.
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Trade Shows
European Publishers See Audiobooks, AI as Inevitabilities
Speakers at the Readmagine publishing conference discussed the various ways the global audiobook market will continue to grow and offered up some thoughts on AI and publishing.
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Content / e-books
AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down
The latest generation of AI is a game changer, Thad McIlroy writes. And the change won't be incremental, but scary fast. If he's right, then the trade book publishing industry as we know it will soon be obsolete.
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Financial Reporting
AI Concerns Drop Chegg Stock by 48%
The stock price of Chegg, the online learning platform for university students, fell 48% Tuesday, after its CEO reported that a spike in interest by students in ChatGPT resulted in lower than expected results in the first quarter.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2023: U.K. Publishers Association Turns Focus to AI Regulation, Literacy
The Publishers Association exists to ensure that publishers across the U.K. can thrive. This year, AI regulation and literacy are among the key areas of focus for the organization.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2023: Talk of AI and Other Tech Fills the Halls
ChatGPT and AI were perhaps the hottest topics at this year's fair, with panelists and other attendees debating the pluses and minuses of the new technologies.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2023: AI Review of AI Says Humans Are Better Critics
Jonathan Segura, co–editorial director at PW, makes a case for human critics over AI.
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Licensing
Authors Guild Meets with Legislators Over Generative AI Concerns
The Guild led a coalition of creative groups who spent a week lobbying lawmakers for legal guardrails against generative artificial intelligence programs and educating them on potential harms posed by such programs on literary and creative industries.
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Apps
OpenAI Debuts GPT-4
The company behind GPT-3 and ChatGPT has released its latest upgrade of the generative AI tool as concerns over AI text generation proliferate in the book world.
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Content / e-books
The Effort to Help Publishers Fight Disinformation Is Underway
What content can you trust in an era of generative AI, deepfakes, fake news, and other counterfeits? Bill Kasdorf highlights three new organizations developing “certificates of authenticity” for media assets.