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HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette quietly use AI without author consent, Wired finds

Readers react on social media, calling AI use a threat to publishing

2 Oct 10 12:11 AM · 3d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 2 sources · development 2 of 2

Mastodon users shared the Wired story with critical commentary, framing the undisclosed AI adoption as part of a broader erosion of human roles in the industry.

Readers react on social media, calling AI use a threat to publishing
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“AI companies and CEOs of all kinds are really trying to destroy a lot of things. As if it were not enough that they destroy an awful lot of books, now they start destroying every single human component of publishing.”

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1Wired reports undisclosed AI use across…2Readers react on social media, calling AI…
Oct 10Oct 11yesterdaytodaynow · 11:25 PM ET

Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet As They Supposedly Battle AI Slop, Major Publishers Reportedly Cover Their Books in It

    first by Gizmodo, 3d ago

  2. 1 outlet Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more

    first by Wired, 3d ago

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