Tech news for authors: March 17, 2025

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of updates and advice on tech tools to offer.

Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:

• Christie’s AI art auction and Mistral’s OCR tool spark debate (Alliance of Independent Authors) 

• Libro.fm sees rapid boom as indie bookstores grow in confidence (Alliance of Independent Authors) 

• ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’ (The Guardian) 

• Counterpoint: AI-penned fiction is 'pretty human, but it's still bad' (Vulture)