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Book Riot Reports on Latest Publisher Stance on Artificial Intelligence
Rebecca Joines Schinsky writes the following in “Penguin Random House Moves to Prohibit AI Companies From Using Its Books” for Book Riot:
In a move that appears targeted to the European Union market, where copyright holders already have legal protection to opt their work out of data mining, Penguin Random House will add language to its copyright pages that expressly prohibits use of the material for training AI technology. …
Will this be a warning shot heard ’round the globe? PRH is the largest publishing house in the world, and this is a strong signal about the direction its leaders want to take the industry on the AI issue.
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