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Publishers Are Feeding Your Manuscript to ChatGPT. The Authors Guild Is Not Amused.

The Authors Guild has issued a stark warning: editors and agents are quietly uploading unpublished manuscripts to consumer AI tools without asking. Now there's a push for contractual consent clauses.

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What Is a Book Worth? The Anthropic Settlement Offers an Answer: About $2,931

The $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement — the largest in U.S. history — calculates the value of a writer's work at roughly $2,931 per book. The fairness hearing is scheduled for May 14. The harder question will not be on the docket.