Doug Preston, known for the popular Agent Pendergast novels, wants authors to work together as a group to stop AI companies from stealing their books. The first step, Preston says, is to sign up with Created by Humans, or CbH, an AI rights licensing platform that just raised a $5.5 million seed round.
Preston said he has published about 40 books, including the bestseller “Cabinet of Curiosities." (Lee Child co-wrote the Agent Pendergast series with Preston.) Nearly all the books, except for the most recent, have been ingested by AI companies without his consent, he said. “No permission, no compensation,” Preston told Fortune.
