Helen Fielding Launches the Bridget Jones Prize for Comic Writing
The free prize, for unpublished and unagented writers in the North of England, wants the funniest 1,000 words of first-person prose. Entries open November 23.
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Society of Authors Withdraws From the Ethical AI Charter
A week after helping launch a global charter on ethical AI use, the UK writers' union says it will withdraw to listen to members. Next steps go to its November 19 AGM.
BISG Shows How ONIX Can Flag AI Use and Human Authorship
Graham Bell's October 19 post walks through ONIX fields for an AI contributor and for a link that says a human wrote the book. A certificate covers one work, not a whole career.
Authors' Groups in Five Countries Launch a Global Ethical AI Charter for the Creative Industries
The Society of Authors, Authors Guild, ASA and partners want publishers, agents and prize bodies to pledge consent, disclosure and fair pay when they use generative AI.
Anthropic Tells Australia's AI Inquiry That Licensing Everything It Trains On Is 'Technically Impossible'
At an Australian parliamentary AI hearing, Anthropic said current copyright law makes local model training impossible. Creative groups said the law should stay as it is.
The Author's Burden: Beyond the Bestseller List
The romanticised image of the solitary author often masks a harsher reality: a profession fraught with mental health challenges and immense creative pressure. It's time the publishing industry acknowledged this burden, not just celebrated the triumphs.
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