Days after employees protested Simon & Schuster’s potential adoption of Skan AI’s productivity tools, Wired reports on how three Big Five companies—Hachette, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster—are using AI tools in-house (like most large corporations everywhere), encouraged by executives and to the frustration of some employees. Agents suggested to Wired that editors have been using LLMs to generate rejection emails. “Among colleagues, we compared emails on different books from the same editors, and they all had the same classic signs of AI writing, like ‘not this, but that’ and the rule of three,” one agent said. Employees “tell Wired […]
