Pangram, an AI startup with 24 employees and $13 million in funding, has become a leading AI-detection tool, claiming to identify AI-generated text with percentage scores, and has been used to accuse …
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…
A wave of AI-detection failures has led to high-profile publishing cancellations, including Hachette's withdrawal of Mia Ballard's horror novel 'Shy Girl' and the cancellation of Jerry Falade's $2 mil…
Anthropic rolled out an imperceptible watermark for AI-generated text in its Claude models, effective August 2, as part of its commitments under the European Union AI Act. The watermark, which persist…
A $2 million publishing deal for Jerry Falade's debut crime novel *Call Me, I'll Hide the Body* collapsed after his agents, Marc Gerald of Europa Content and Sandy Hodgman of Hodgman Literary, said th…
Employers and platforms are increasingly using AI text detectors, but experts warn their results are unreliable signals, not definitive proof. In March, Hachette Book Group canceled Mia Ballard's nove…
Writers are forming an anti-AI literary counterculture by deliberately avoiding AI tells like em dashes, tripartite lists, and passive voice, according to novelist Laura Brooke Robson and others. Robs…
Several authors, including Anthony Horowitz, are openly using AI tools like ChatGPT for research and writing assistance, challenging the stigma against AI in publishing. A Cambridge study found that a…