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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Gizmodo: Books Written Without AI Can Now Receive New ‘Human Authored’ Certification. “The Authors Guild, one of the largest associations of writers in America, is launching a new project to certify books that have been written by a human rather than a machine. The new ‘Human Authored’ certification will help authors distinguish their work and let readers know what they are reading—and […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/13/gizmodo-books-written-without-ai-can-now-receive-new-human-authored-certification/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/13/gizmodo-books-written-without-ai-can-now-receive-new-human-authored-certification/</a></p>
Solar Branka :mw:<p>The Authors Guild in the US launched a 'Human Authored' book cert for authors, to combat AI-riddled publications. Errmm...</p><p>If you take a look at this blog, I'd love to hear what you think on this topic.</p><p><a href="https://www.thenoveliststudio.com/blog/human-authored-certification-authors-guild" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenoveliststudio.com/blog/hum</span><span class="invisible">an-authored-certification-authors-guild</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>5/ See the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AuthorsGuild" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a></span>) response:<br><a href="https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-responds-to-department-of-education-dismissal-of-book-ban-cases/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">authorsguild.org/news/ag-respo</span><span class="invisible">nds-to-department-of-education-dismissal-of-book-ban-cases/</span></a></p><p>"The Authors Guild is deeply dismayed by the current administration’s recent decision to dismiss 11 complaints related to book bans and to eliminate the position of book ban coordinator. The Department of Education’s recent characterization of book bans as a “hoax” goes against the findings of multiple federal courts, which have found that certain of these laws violate the First Amendment rights of authors and students.</p><p>The issue here is not the removal of age-inappropriate, sexually explicit or obscene materials from schools; no one objects to that. The problem is the tendency to tar otherwise appropriate works with an accusation of “obscenity” because someone takes issue with the ideas contained in the book—more often than not works that are written by or stories that feature LGBTQ+ or BIPOC individuals. Some books have been removed because of challenges made by one or very few people, who often have not read the book."</p>
Justice💙:toad: LICSW<p>Watching <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RachelMaddow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelMaddow</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TonyKushner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonyKushner</span></a> at the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <br>Did you know Tony is writing a screenplay w <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StevenSpielberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StevenSpielberg</span></a> on Rachel’s podcast <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Ultra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ultra</span></a> ??!</p><p>Anyway, I think they’ll offer it, free, AND ITS WORTH IT! They’re talking about the process and fight, one patriot at a time, you and me, for <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEMOCRACY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEMOCRACY</span></a> <br>💙<br>www.authorsguild.org/2024-wit-literary-festival-kushner-maddow-watch-live/</p>
Melissa<p>AI in Publishing<br>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</p><p>event Tuesday May 14th<br>6 - 8 pm EST<br>Benefitting <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <br>$5, register here: <a href="https://jamesriverwriters.org/event/ai-in-publishing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jamesriverwriters.org/event/ai</span><span class="invisible">-in-publishing/</span></a></p><p>Me: Jane Friedman is knowledgeable and articulate.<br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a></p>
Fight for the Future<p>While the tens of billions publishing is making has been at historic highs over the past several years, median author incomes, which frankly were always pathetic, have gone down over 50% since 2007.</p><p>This massive dip on the chart of author incomes (thank you <a href="https://mastodon.fightforthefuture.org/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> for the data!) looks an awful lot like the plunge that record labels took when, their words not ours, someone was “stealing” from them.</p>
David Hull 胡大衛<p>New Authors Guild Survey Examines State of Literary Translators’ Working Conditions</p><p><a href="https://authorsguild.org/news/new-survey-examines-state-of-literary-translators-working-conditions/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">authorsguild.org/news/new-surv</span><span class="invisible">ey-examines-state-of-literary-translators-working-conditions/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Translation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Translators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Translators</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a></p>
Jonathan Bailey<p>Authors Guild sends open letter to AI companies, Russia prepares to ban VPNs from their own store and Paramount releases Mean Girls on TikTok.</p><p><a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/10/04/3-count-meaner-girls/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">plagiarismtoday.com/2023/10/04</span><span class="invisible">/3-count-meaner-girls/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MeanGirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeanGirls</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>"The <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> and 17 authors filed a class-action suit against <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a>…for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> infringement…on behalf of a class of fiction writers whose works have been used to train GPT."<br><a href="https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-and-authors-file-class-action-suit-against-openai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">authorsguild.org/news/ag-and-a</span><span class="invisible">uthors-file-class-action-suit-against-openai/</span></a></p><p>PS: I'm sympathetic but wouldn't join such a suit. First, I only publish nonfiction. Second, I only publish <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> under <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CCBY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCBY</span></a>. Third, I depend on salaries and grants, not royalties. I'd rather that AI tools give answers informed by my writings than not. </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Lawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lawsuits</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<p>I recently joined the <a href="https://queer.party/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> and am disappointed to hear the organization opposes <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> and the Open Library. Everyone who knows me knows I hate piracy, but I don’t see what the Open Library does as piracy or really that different from what libraries have always done. What do these authors think about the predicament of kids living in areas where book bans prevent them from accessing essential information, or people like me who don’t live anywhere near a library that has a significant English-language collection? I assume these people would only accept digital lending if it came with significant barriers to access.</p>
Gayle J. Greenlea 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>“James Patterson, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and thousands of other writers have endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild, urging AI companies to seek permission before using copyrighted work in their technologies.” <a href="https://wnyt.com/business-news/james-patterson-margaret-atwood-among-thousands-of-writers-urging-ai-companies-to-honor-copyrights/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wnyt.com/business-news/james-p</span><span class="invisible">atterson-margaret-atwood-among-thousands-of-writers-urging-ai-companies-to-honor-copyrights/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MargaretAtwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MargaretAtwood</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a></p>
Candace Robb<p>I&#39;ve signed! <br />&quot;To: Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI; Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta; Emad Mostaque, CEO, Stability AI; Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM<br />From: [Your Name]</p><p>We, the undersigned, call your attention to the inherent injustice in exploiting our works as part of your AI systems without our consent, credit, or compensation.</p><p>Generative AI technologies built on large language models owe their existence to our writings.&quot; <a href="https://historians.social/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <br /><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/authors-guild-open-letter-to-generative-ai-leaders" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/petitions/au</span><span class="invisible">thors-guild-open-letter-to-generative-ai-leaders</span></a></p>
Korra Saqqara (Christa A.)<p>"We appeal to HarperCollins management to work with the union in good faith to improve compensation, staff diversity, and union protections."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AuthorsGuild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsGuild</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HCPOnStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HCPOnStrike</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HarperCollins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarperCollins</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnionStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnionStrong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Union</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a></p><p><a href="https://authorsguild.org/news/statement-in-support-of-harpercollins-union-strike/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">authorsguild.org/news/statemen</span><span class="invisible">t-in-support-of-harpercollins-union-strike/</span></a></p>
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