Book publishers quietly expand AI use as staff push back
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Workers at three of the Big Five US publishers — HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette — told WIRED that LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT are being used to email literary agents, write publicity and back-cover copy, design cover art, and generate marketing materials, often without public disclosure or author consent. More than two dozen staff interviewed anonymously said executives are pushing junior employees to champion the tools, while editors claim prominent canceled books over AI use are only the tip of the iceberg.
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