News Summary: Publishers Seek to Join Copyright Lawsuit against Google’s Gemini AI

AI lawsuits are in the news again. And it's not Anthropic this week, but the large ongoing lawsuit against Google's Gemini. It takes the form of a motion to intervene, as I believe it's called (you can read the motion in question here to fill yourselves in). The motion is brought by two major publishing groups, Cengage and Hachette. It requests, as I understand it, that the two publishing groups join the case brought by writers and illustrators in 2023 and currently before the Northern California judiciary, intervening as class representatives.

News Summary: Anthropic AI Lawsuit Moves Toward Settlement; Authors and Publishers Await Terms

The two stories in this round-up feature the Association of American Publishers. Nonetheless, both are relevant for indie authors, in the US certainly and quite possibly elsewhere. First up is possibly a major breakthrough in the Anthropic AI case. The headlines vary. At the time of writing, Publishing Perspectives is leading with “A Potential Settlement.” TechCrunch, meanwhile, has “Anthropic Settles…”

Condé Nast Partners with OpenAI as Creatives Push Back: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

The weekend news brings a mix of interesting updates, starting with a major partnership between Condé Nast and OpenAI. Condé Nast, one of the largest and most high-profile publishers of magazines like The New Yorker and Vogue, announced a deal with OpenAI that will allow the AI giant to train ChatGPT on Condé Nast publications while benefiting from increased visibility for their stories. They also publish Wired, which is interesting because Wired was one of the first publications to take a very high-profile “never written by AI” stance.