Authors have been fighting diligently to limit the encroachment of generative AI in courts and in contracts and now there is a new front in those battles as Amazon has quietly helped themselves to thousands of texts, with more planned soon. In October the company suggested, towards the bottom of a release focused on the refresh of their Kindle Scribe devices, they they would be “adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle,” with “Story So Far” (a summary of what you had read so far) and “Ask this Book,” providing “spoiler-free answers to questions […]
