Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permission
‘Our authors have the choice to opt in to the agreement or pass on the opportunity,’ said HarperCollins of the AI move.‘Our authors have the choice to opt in to the agreement or pass on the opportunity,’ said HarperCollins of the AI move.Publisher HarperCollins will allow some of its titles to be used to train AI models, with the permission of authors.
The company “has reached an agreement with an artificial intelligence technology company to allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and performance”, it said in a statement shared with the Guardian. “While we believe this deal is attractive, we respect the various views of our authors, and they have the choice to opt in to the agreement or to pass on the opportunity,” it added. According to the email, the terms are non-negotiable and have been “agreed to by several hundred authors”. It also says that HarperCollins has been required to keep the “company’s identify confidential”, but that the agency has “good reason to believe it is a major and respected company”.
While HarperCollins says that the deal will involve nonfiction titles, the book Kibblesmith was approached about, Santa’s Husband, is a children’s fiction book.“HarperCollins has a long history of innovation and experimentation with new business models,” the company said in its statement. “Part of our role is to present authors with opportunities for their consideration while simultaneously protecting the underlying value of their works and our shared revenue and royalty streams.
In a follow-up to the screenshots, Kibblesmith encouraged people to “direct any outrage toward the incredibly doable action of purchasing physical books by living authors from local bookstores.”At the time, the publisher said that while it would “continue to devote time and resources to voice actor-led productions”, AI would be “leveraged as a complementary tool to enable a broader number of audiobooks for backlist series books in non-English markets”.
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