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Mining of authors’ work is nothing new – AI is just doing what creative humans do | Letter
Letters: Creativity has always ‘trained’ on the work of others, says Andrew Vincent
06, Apr, 2025 @4:40 PM
I can’t delete WhatsApp’s new AI tool. But I’ll use it over my dead body | Polly Hudson
The blue-and-purple hoop is supposedly there to answer questions that arise in chats, but it’s a slippery slope from providing bus times to annihilating the human race, writes Polly Hudson
Polly Hudson
06, Apr, 2025 @1:00 PM
US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions
California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and more
Ella Creamer
04, Apr, 2025 @12:46 PM
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models
Ella Creamer
03, Apr, 2025 @7:00 AM
UK government tries to placate opponents of AI copyright bill
Economic impact assessment is one concession aiming to head off opposition from MPs, peers and creatives such as Paul McCartney and Tom Stoppard
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
02, Apr, 2025 @6:13 PM
UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warns
Tony Blair Institute says enforcing stricter licensing rules for copyright-protected material will threaten national security interests
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
01, Apr, 2025 @11:01 PM
Pupils in England to be taught about online spending and scams
Financial literacy lessons to be given to pupils at primary and secondary schools
Sally Weale Education correspondent
01, Apr, 2025 @11:01 PM
OpenAI raises $40bn in deal with SoftBank that values it at $300bn
Japanese investor to put $10bn at first into OpenAI and $30bn more by end of 2025 if certain conditions are met
Dan Milmo and agency
01, Apr, 2025 @1:32 PM
AI is a tool that can sharpen storytelling | Letter
Letter: It doesn’t feel or know, but it can provoke feeling and lead to knowing, writes John Hinkley
31, Mar, 2025 @3:59 PM
Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement
‘I am a crime writer, I understand theft,’ said Val McDermid – joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf
Ella Creamer
31, Mar, 2025 @12:40 PM
Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time
Exclusive: education secretary exploring tools to compile student reports and assess writing and vocational skills
Richard Adams Education editor
31, Mar, 2025 @4:00 AM
AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp
If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better
Joseph Earp
29, Mar, 2025 @7:00 PM
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