Happy Holiday!

August 12, 2013

The Self Publishing Advice blog is taking a holiday. We'll be back on August 28th, to kick off an exciting end-of-year blog programme.

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This week in "who could possibly have seen it coming," there has been a reaction against the Charter of Ethical AI Use I reported on at the end of last week. The Charter seeks to set standards it wanted companies working in the industry to adhere to if they do use AI, such as transparency, consent, and licensing arrangements with creators.

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In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A podcast, hosts Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black discuss whether AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT can run an author's book marketing, from managing Amazon ads to updating metadata and delivering weekly trend reports.