Penguin Random House has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train LLMs and other AI tools. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/penguin-random-house-underscores-copyright-protection-in-ai-rebuff

But the devil is in the details as Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) wrote today.

"Just because you're on their side, it doesn't mean they're on your side."

In other words, PRH is going to make these AI films pay them then screw with authors. Is that simple.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/19/gander-sauce/#just-because-youre-on-their-side-it-doesnt-mean-theyre-on-your-side

Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff

The world’s biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train AI tools, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal

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Also, the link in that piece back to
https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/19/reasonable-agreement/
should be followed (eventually).

Reasonable Agreement – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@joeo10 @pluralistic NEVER mistake momentarily aligned interests for allies with momentous interests.