Johns Hopkins University Press announced that it will license its books to train proprietary LLMs. The press hopes that revenue from the deals will help fill holes left by Trump administration cuts to university funding. The press did not announced which specific companies it will license the work to, but says they include “general AI companies and those focused on specialized content and inference models like Retrieval-Augmented Generation.” Johns Hopkins authors have until August 31 to opt out of the agreement and sign an addendum on their contracts, or else their work will be licensed. The publisher says they can […]
