News Summary: EU Removes Books from Deforestation Rules, as Daunt Weighs AI-Generated Titles

We start the week with a round-up of stories I originally had slated for Saturday before sadder events overtook us. First up, two of my favourite topics wrapped into one neat story package: print and European law.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/deforestation-rules/

#AIgeneratedbooks #booksellingtrends #EUDRexemption #Europeanpublishing #jamesdaunt

Apple Loosens App Store Rules; EU Publishers Call for AI Transparency: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

We end the week with a round-up of several small but nonetheless important stories. The biggest of those relates to the recent legal developments in the Epic Games and Apple case. The US courts have ruled that Apple must…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/app-store/

#AIgeneratedbooks #appstorechanges #EUpublishersstatement #KindleiOSupdate #Patreonpayments
@indieauthors

#Google Books Is Indexing #AI-Generated Books

👉 #GoogleBooks is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google #Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track #language use throughout history. 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-books-important-source-for-academics-may-have-a-bot-problem/articleshow/109089043.cms

#GoogleNgram #NgramViewer #linguistics #diachrony #diachroniclinguistics #research #languages #aigeneratedcontent #AIgeneratedBooks

🍄 "There are hundreds of poisonous fungi in North America and several that are deadly," Sigrid Jakob
Experts Worry That AI-Generated Books About Mushroom Foraging Will Get Someone Killed
by Maggie Harrison at @futurism
#fungi #AI #AIgeneratedBooks

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-generated-books-mushroom-foraging