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News Summary: US Book Output Tops 4 Million Driven by Self-Publishing; UK Retreats on AI Copyright Exception

How many books are published in a year? Is the number going up or down? How many copies are sold? We know these figures are, and have been for a long time, very controversial. Because there are so many books that do not count in these figures, especially self-published titles on places like Amazon that don't require an ISBN. Which makes calculations about the indie sector particularly tricky. Which is why the latest set of figures is so interesting. Hat tip to Jane Friedman for pointing me to this.
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#AIgeneratedcontent #bookpublishingstatistics #dataminingexception #DontStealThisBook #selfpublishinggrowth

US Book Output Tops 4 Million Driven by Self-Publishing

US book output reaches 4 million in 2025, driven by self-publishing growth. UK government abandons preferred AI copyright opt-out plan.

The Self-Publishing Advice Center

Leon Furze Oct 1, 2023

Hands on with chat + search: connecting generative AI to the internet

So far in this series I’ve taken a look at image generation with Adobe’s Firefly, audio generation with tools like MusicLM and Stable audio, and voice generation via ElevenLabs. In this post, I’m going back to where this wave of AI hype began with ChatGPT and text generation. However, plenty has changed since my early posts about ChatGPT at the end of 2022, and even since more recent posts. In competition with other chatbots like Google’s Bard, we’re now seeing successive releases […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/02/hands-on-with-chat-search-connecting-generative-ai-to-the-internet/

Leon Furze Aug 7, 2024

The Semiotics of Synthetic Media: Production and Meaning in Digital Plastic

Lately I've been digging in to the metaphor of Generative AI content as "digital plastic". I first wrote about it back in 2023 in this article, where I defined the media as a "mass produced, synthetic form of data that like its physical counterpart doesn't degrade much over time" and likened it to the way physical plastic has left its mark on the geological record, suggesting that AI-generated content could leave a similar "layer" in the digital […]

https://leonfurze.com/2024/08/07/the-semiotics-of-synthetic-media-production-and-meaning-in-digital-plastic/

CBC Indigenous 6d ago

Be wary of AI-generated content on Indigenous cultures, say experts
AI-generated Indigenous language dictionaries, elders’ teachings and history circulating online could be harming culture and language revitalization efforts, say experts. Some First Nations are turning to structured knowledge system AI, which is curated and controlled by the community.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ai-indigenous-language-culture-9.7126508?cmp=rss

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

Oh, the existential terror of being attacked by a wild pack of 🦄 AI-generated paragraphs, with all the grace of a dancing hippo on roller skates! 🙄 The internet's latest crime against humanity: unleashing raw, unrefined LLM vomit on unsuspecting victims who must now decipher the junk you couldn't be bothered to skim. 📉
https://stopsloppypasta.ai/ #existentialterror #AIgeneratedcontent #LLMvomit #internetcrimes #decodingjunk #HackerNews #ngated

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Winbuzzer Mar 12

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/12/openai-plans-to-fold-sora-into-chatgpt-after-standalone-app-xcxwbn/

Failing Sora App: OpenAI Plans to Fold AI Video Maker Into ChatGPT

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Sora #AI #GenerativeAI #AIVideoGeneration #AIVideo #TextToVideo #AIGeneratedContent

sammii Mar 2

I built a podcast generator that produces a full episode for £0.03.

Kokoro TTS for voice, Claude for the script, automated mixing. I press nothing. It runs on a schedule.

Something strange about listening to a podcast your infrastructure made while you slept.

#AIpodcasting #PodcastAutomation #TextToSpeech #AIgeneratedcontent #PodcastInnovation

AI Daily Post Feb 27

Samsung’s new ticket campaign is being called a ‘train wreck’ as AI deepfakes flood brand ads. What does this mean for authenticity, creative control, and the unclear limits of AI‑generated content? Dive into the clash of marketing tech and ethics in our latest industry analysis. #AIDeepfakes #SamsungAds #AIgeneratedContent #MarketingTech

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/ai-deepfakes-dubbed-train-wreck-samsung-sells-tickets-ai-limits

formuchdeliberation Feb 23

HK privacy watchdog, 60 overseas authorities sound alarm on AI deepfakes

#artificialintelligence #ai #internet #technology #aideepfakes #aigeneratedcontent #grok #chatbots #aitools #computersandtheinternet #worldwideweb
https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/23/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-joins-60-overseas-authorities-warning-of-ai-generated-intimate-images/

Hong Kong privacy watchdog joins 60 overseas authorities warning of AI-generated intimate images

HK's privacy watchdog has joined 60 other overseas authorities in warning against non-consensual AI-generated images depicting individuals, including children and other vulnerable groups.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP