Category: AI
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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The Guardian Partners With OpenAI While Simultaneously Fuelling The Luddite Fringe Fire
Memo to Microsoft – I’ve got some backlist titles and a struggling school where kids cannot imagine what £20 looks like, let alone £2,000, if you’d like to get in touch!
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Indigenous Literature in Bangladesh Struggles Today, But Has A Brighter Tomorrow Thanks To AI
With 77 million people already online in Bangladesh, the infrastructure is in place. The expertise lies just across the border.
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PARIX IA: The Largest AI-Related Event for Spanish-Language Publishing Markets. Time To Leave The Luddites In The Dust!
Watching the global AI scene evolve, it’s clear that many publishers and authors in the US, and even more in the UK, blindly fixating on these issues and unable/unwilling to see the bigger picture thanks to a handful of Luddite influencers, stand to be left behind as AI-assisted publishing moves forward without them.
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