Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic on August 29, 2026, alleging the company pirated copyrighted song lyrics to train its Claude AI models, calling it 'one of the largest an…
A 2025 empirical benchmark reveals that cryptographic watermarking degrades Large Language Model factuality by up to 37% in specialized domains like medical clinical queries, according to a report hig…
Cryptographic watermarking degrades large language model factuality by up to 37% in specialized domains like medical clinical queries, according to 2025 empirical benchmarks cited by Dr. Mohit Sewak. …
Nitroshock Research (2025) reports that standard cryptographic text watermarks collapse from 70.3% to 4.6% detection accuracy under DIPPER paraphrasing attacks, and distortionary watermarking in medic…
Publishers on both sides of the Atlantic are cancelling book deals over unproven AI authorship allegations, with at least three major agreements collapsing in recent months. Jerry Falade, a graduate s…
ISBNdb, a book data tracking company, briefly offered AI training data from destructive book scanning, which involves slicing spines off books and recycling pages, before pivoting away after public ba…
British publisher Bloomsbury Publishing will receive compensation from a $1.5 billion settlement with AI startup Anthropic, resolving claims that Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its Claude l…
A federal judge in San Francisco has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, marking the largest copyright rec…
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors and rightsholders who accused the company of using pirated books to train its Claude AI model, marking the largest copyright s…
A columnist for Le Devoir expresses boredom with the AI debate, criticizing the media frenzy, hypocritical tech leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, and the marketing of AI dangers while selling …
Generative AI has enabled a new wave of sophisticated publishing scams targeting authors. Scammers use large language models to scrape author data from Amazon, Goodreads, and personal websites, crafti…
The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts, finding that Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT falsely flagged human-written artic…
Australia-based audiobook producer Bolinda will create a "bespoke" AI clone of romance author Barbara Cartland's voice in partnership with her estate, while synthetic-voice company ElevenLabs released…