Authors are resisting AI with petitions and lawsuits. But they have an advantage: we read to form relationships with writers

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The first waves of AI-generated text have writers and publishers reeling.

In the United States last week, the Authors Guild submitted an open letter to the chief executives of prominent AI companies, asking AI developers to obtain consent from, credit and fairly compensate authors. The letter was signed by more than 10,000 authors and their supporters, including James Patterson, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Margaret Atwood.