NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and are among thousands of writers endorsing an open letter from the Authors Guild urging to obtain permission before incorporating copyrighted work into their technologies.
"Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the 鈥榝ood鈥� for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill," the letter reads in part. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e spending billions of dollars to develop AI technology. It is only fair that you compensate us for using our writings, without which AI would be banal and extremely limited.鈥�
The letter is addressed to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and other AI producers. The Guild announced Tuesday that other signers include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Jennifer Egan, Michael Chabon and Louise Erdrich, as well as authors , Celeste Ng, Nora Roberts and Ron Chernow.
鈥淚f creators aren鈥檛 compensated fairly, they can鈥檛 afford to create," Roberts said in a statement. "If writers aren鈥檛 paid to write, they can鈥檛 afford to write. Human beings create and write stories human beings read. We鈥檙e not robots to be programmed, and AI can鈥檛 create human stories without taking from human stories already written.鈥�
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