Book industry figures have described the team behind a publishing AI startup as "dingbats", "opportunists" and "extractive capitalists". The new company, Spines, will charge authors between $1,200 ...

According to course professor Zrinka Stahuljak, she created the textbook and assignments by supplying her own course notes from previous versions of the class to the AI tool, which wouldn't pull ...

Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images Book industry figures have described the team behind a publishing AI startup as "dingbats", "opportunists" and "extractive capitalists".

Perplexity AI closed a $500 million funding round earlier this month, pushing its valuation to $9 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. That means the AI search engine startup ...

AI training data has ... of 1 million public-domain books, spanning genres, languages, and authors including Dickens, Dante, and Shakespeare, which are no longer copyright-protected due to their ...

It has almost all the problems I’ve pointed out in past reviews about artificial intelligence (AI) books that refuse to ... but there’s no real discussion of the need for regulations to ...

Now it plans to flood the market with thousands of books using AI. Spines—which is really more accurately described as a tech startup than a publisher—plans to publish 8,000 books in 2025 by ...

For instance, the deal states that “no more than 200 consecutive words and/or five percent of a book’s text” will be used in training the AI model. It also includes a pledge that Microsoft ...

Harvard University has announced that it will be releasing about 1 million public domain books as a dataset available for the training of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. This is set to be ...

OpenAI of ChatGPT fame has emerged as the poster child of the AI revolution ... Per the company, there are no financial penalties or other monetary relief associated with the announcement.

A startup called Spines apparently wants to use AI to edit and publish 8,000 books in 2025 — though no word on whether they'll be any good. Oh, and then there's the issue of Spines embarrassing ...