AI news for authors: Friday, January 19, 2024

The journey of any new technological tool includes the establishment trying to decide how best to harness its power.

And that's the topic this week in the world of artificial intelligence.

Publishers Weekly looked at a newly launched effort called Fairly Trained; the nonprofit will endorse generative AI models that used copyright-friendly training practices.

And the Alliance of Independent Authors looked at OpenAI's response to the lawsuit filed against it by The New York Times as well as how the Authors Guild plans to coexist with AI tools.