"Book publishing has, let's say, a complicated relationship with artificial intelligence. Earlier this month, Anthropic settled a lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, agreeing to pay $1.5 billion after training its chatbot, Claude, on pirated text; hundreds of such copyright lawsuits against data-scraping tech companies are still making their way through the courts. Many in the culture industries see AI as not just a thief but an existential competitor, ready to replace human writers at every turn."
"Among these recent releases, one overarching theme is a debate occurring between so-called accelerationists and doomers-those who think superintelligence will hugely benefit humanity and those who suspect it will kill us all. Adam Becker, a journalist and former astrophysicist, disagrees with both groups. Becker, the author of the recent anti-utopian critique More Everything Forever, wrote for The Atlantic this week about his problems with a new dystopian manifesto, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares."
Book publishing has a complicated relationship with artificial intelligence. Anthropic settled a $1.5 billion lawsuit after training its chatbot on pirated text, and hundreds of copyright suits against data‑scraping companies remain unresolved. Many in culture industries perceive AI as both a thief and an existential competitor to human writers. Publishers also embrace the technology for tasks like marketing and have released over twenty books this year that explain, praise, criticize, fictionalize, or incorporate AI. A prominent debate pits accelerationists, who foresee superintelligence benefits, against doomers, who foresee catastrophe. One critic rejects both sides, arguing they overhype long‑term risks while overlooking immediate dangers from thoughtless deployment.
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