Mike Leadley

Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books edited and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence

Please, if you want to self-pub your book, then use your monies for an editor, a proofreader and a cover artist.

Real people, with real talent, who'll work with you to make your book the best book it can be.

Not these talentless, techbro, vanity press grifters.

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.

More bullshit AI stealing peoples work: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
It's beyond time all the AI crooks got thrown in jail for mass copyright theft

HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech. On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…

What, you want me to sell you the right to have AI scrape my work?

What's the offer?

$2,500 a book?

Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself

lithub.com/harpercollin...

Authors/publishers, go check a website called Oceanofpdf for your books.

They have 9 of mine that they are giving away for free and I've seen many belonging to people I know. Their email address is on the website.

They also have the gall to ask for donations...

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Hello! Doing good, attempting to get ducks lined up in a row - so about the usual :D