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New AI licensing platform aims to help authors keep control over their books

In the wake of several high profile lawsuits involving authors suing AI companies for allegedly scraping their literary works to train large language models, The Authors Guild announced the public launch of its partnership with an AI rights licensing platform this week. Walter Isaacson, James Patterson, Susan Orlean and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the authors in support of the endeavor.

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Chloe Veltman
Chloe Veltman is a correspondent on NPR's Culture Desk.