In the News: March 2025

Brain implant translates thoughts to speech in an instant ► Nature ► 3/31/25

Seattle engineer’s Ghibli-style image goes viral, and sparks some backlash over AI art ► GeekWire ► 3/31/25

How can you promote your book at an event ► Springer Nature ► 3/31/25

Why Construction News is using AI to assist with our writing ► Construction News ► 3/31/25

AI possibly replacing writers in 10-20 years: Liu Cixin ► Global Times ► 3/30/25

How is the tech industry thinking about AI’s environmental impact? ► NHPR ► 3/30/25

Major studios are profiting from fake AI trailers while artists have to just sit back and watch ► Movieweb ► 3/29/25

AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting, and exploring the world? ► The Guardian ► 3/29/25

Bill Sniffin: My personal editor’s library is living on borrowed time ► Cowboy State Daily ► 3/29/25

“Nothing really matters anymore”: Fans upset over Studio Ghibli-style art ► NDTV World ► 3/29/25

Sarah Vine: AI is strangling the creative arts at birth ► Daily Mail ► 3/28/25

AI is writing the news, but who’s paying the price? ► Financial Express ► 3/28/25

You can now turn yourself into a Studio Ghibli-style character with AI, but should you? ► Images ► 3/28/25

ChatGPT’s viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns ► AP ► 3/28/25

AI art heist? Can Blockchain save Studio Ghibli’s style? ► Forbes ► 3/28/25

Nielsen BookScan report: key insights 2024 ► Chytomo ► 3/28/25

OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art provokes backlash across the internet ► Mashable ► 3/27/25

How Is Meta Getting Its Hands on Advance Digital Galleys to Train Its AI? ► LitHub ► 3/27/25

The Vanishing Art of Editing: Can AI Save the Future of Literature? ► Times of India ► 3/27/25

AI Is Transforming Peer Review – and Many Scientists Are Worried ► Nature ► 3/26/25

Bill Gates Says Only 3 Jobs Will Be Safe From AI (And It’s Bad News for Creatives) ► Creative Bloq ► 3/26/25

Judge Allows “New York Times” Copyright Case Against OpenAI To Go Forward ► NPR ► 3/26/25

Promote Your Book: Social Media Strategies for Authors ► Springer Nature ► 3/26/25

Iowa’s Book Ban Bill Blocked Again by Federal Judge ► Book Riot ► 3/26/25

Academic Publishing Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry. It’s Not Always Good for Science ► Phys.org ► 3/25/25

Penguin Random House’s “Banned on the Run” Event: US$10,000 ► Publishing Perspectives ► 3/25/25

Richard Osman Urges Writers to “Have a Good Go” at Meta Over Breaches of Copyright ►The Guardian ► 3/25/25

Meta Says Copying Books was “Fair Use” in Authors’ AI Lawsuit ► Reuters ► 3/25/25

Machines Are Not Writers, NaNoWriMo. ► The Corsair ► 3/25/25

Academic Publishing: Multibillion-Dollar Industry Woes ► Mirage ► 3/25/25

Report Finds Creative Freelancers Hit By Loss of Work, Late Pay and AI ► Museums Association ► 3/25/25

9 KDP Alternatives for Self-Publishing Your Book ► Slashgear ► 3/24/25

Taylor & Francis to Use AI Translation Tools to Publish Books “Otherwise Unavailable in English” ► The Bookseller ► 3/25/25

Do Typos Fool AI Detectors? ► Medium ► 3/24/25

Will AI Kill the Publishing Industry? ► Verdict ► 3/24/25

AI Writing Is Now Widespread Online – New Research Explores Its Impact ► Forbes ► 3/24/25

Artists vs AI: Why Art Still Belongs to Us ► Epigram ► 3/22/25

Ironic: Maricopa ARTS Council Chooses AI-Generated Image Over Real Art ► In Maricopa.com ► 3/22/25

The Battle for Creativity: Why the Court’s AI Art Ruling is a Major Win for Human Innovation ► Black Engineer

“More Are Published Than Could Ever Succeed”: Are There Too Many Books? ► The Guardian ► 3/21/25

AI Can’t Generate an Artist’s Soulful Connection to the Audience ► The Tacoma Ledge ► 3/21/25

Academic Publishers Braced for Slowdown as Trump DEI Purge Bites ► Inside Higher Ed ► 3/21/25

The Literary Lynnch Pen: Why Writers Should Always Be Students ► The Oldham Era ► 3/21/25

Meta’s Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need To Know ► The Authors Guild ► 3/20/25

“Because I Believe in Hope”: Katee Robert on the Power of Romance Novels ► PEN ► 3/20/25

Search LibGen, the Pirated Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI ► The Atlantic ► 3/20/25

An Italian Newspaper Launched a Generative AI Experiment. It’s Not Going Well ► Poynter ► 3/20/25

Court Rules AI-Generated Art Does Not Qualify for Copyright Protection ► Social Media Today ► 3/19/25

The Language Habits Americans Are Embracing and Trying to Shed ► SD News ► 3/18/25

The Most Innovative Companies in Media and News for 2025 ► Fast Company ► 3/18/25

People Say They Prefer Stories Written by Humans Over AI-Generated Works, Yet New Study Suggests That’s Not Quite True ► The Conversation ► 3/18/25

Italian Newspaper Says It Has Published World’s First AI-Generated Edition ► The Guardian ► 3/18/15

Fewer Paperbacks, Higher Prices: What This Publishing Trend Means for Bookstores ► News Center Maine ► 3/17/25

Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and More Than 400 Hollywood Names Urge Trump to Not Let AI Companies “Exploit” Copyrighted Works ► Variety ► 3/17/25

Hundreds of Actors and Hollywood Insiders Sign Open Letter Urging Government Not to Loosen Copyright Laws for AI ► CBS News ► 3/17/25

A Literary Evolution: How BookTok Is Transforming the World of Publishing ► Yorkshire Bylines ► 3/17/25

From Mississauga to Florida, School Book Bans Are Spurred by the Same Assumption: Books Corrupt Our Kids. It’s Completely Wrong ► Toronto Star ► 3/16/25

This Writer Set up a “Grammar Table” to Bring People Together Over a Love of Language ► CBC ► 3/15/25

How To Write a Book While Working Full-Time ► Gulf News ► 3/14/25

Translated Fiction: Why AI Should Never Replace Human Translators ► Verdict ► 3/14/25

London Book Fair 2025: Can AI Help Literature Go Global? ► News EU ► 3/13/25

Rediscovering Creativity in the Age of Generative AI ► Psychology Today ► 3/13/25

Dave Eggers on OpenAI’s New Creative Writing Bot: “A Cheap Party Trick” ► The San Francisco Standard ► 3/13/25

Adib Khorram Wants To Use the Might of Romance To Fight Censorship | Shelf Love ► PEN ► 3/13/25

ChatGPT Firm Reveals AI Model That Is “Good at Creative Writing” ► The Guardian ► 3/12/25

French Publishers and Authors File Lawsuit Against Meta in AI Case ► Reuters ► 3/12/25

Unvale Raises $1.8M To Grow Their AI-Free Social Platform for Creatives ► TYN Magazine ► 3/11/25

Protecting Artists’ Rights: What Responsible AI Means for the Creative Industries ► The Conversation ► 3/11/25

Why Writing Remains a Vital Skill in the Age of AI ► Forbes ► 3/11/25

Local Gannett-Owned Websites Are Using AI To Help Write Articles ► WGBH ► 3/11/25

The Psychological Impact of AI Detectors on Writers ► BBN Times ► 3/10/25

AI Writing Fingerprints: Identify (& Fix) AI-Generated Content ► Search Engine Journal ► 3/10/25

AI Can Steal Your Voice, and There’s Not Much You Can Do About It ► NBC News ► 3/10/25

The Case for Using Your Brain – Even If AI Can Think For You ► Vox ► 3/10/25

The Em Dash Debate: Should AI Influence Our Writing Style? ► London Daily News ► 3/10/25

Artificial Intelligence, Art and the Problem of Alienation ► Daily Sabah ► 3/8/25

AI’s Gender Bias Is Even Worse Than Reality ► Creative Bloq ► 3/8/25

Health Expert Warns of Leaning Too Heavily on AI for Social Connections ► Tech Crunch ► 3/7/25

We’re Locked Inside a Creative Bubble, Will AI Burst It or Throw Away the Key? ► MSN ► 3/7/25

This New AI Is Kind of Like a Journal That Writes Itself ► 6 AM City ► 3/7/25

Global Voices’ Policy on AI ► Global Voices ► 3/7/25

A Long-Shot Bet To Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media ► The New York Times ► 3/6/25

Your Writing Has a Fingerprint – And This Cutting Edge AI Model Can Identify It ► Hackernoon ► 3/6/25

Sale of Ellen Raskin Estate Reveals Unpublished “Westing Game” Sequel ► Publishers Weekly ► 3/6/25

Will AI Replace Writers? Here’s Why It’s Not Happening Anytime Soon ► Forbes ► 3/3/25

Graphic Designer Shares Why AI Has “Ruined” Experience ► Newsweek ► 3/3/25

Life Experience: I Let AI Run My Life for a Week ► The Straits Times ► 3/3/25

Generative AI Is Most Useful For Things We Care About the Least ► Japan Today ► 3/2/25

The New York Times Embraces AI in its Newsroom ► DrivingEco ► 3/2/25

Google’s AI Previews Erode the internet, US Edtech Company Says in Lawsuit ► CyprusMail ► 3/2/25

“The Future is Analog” is a Reminder That We Need Human Interaction Amid All This AI ► Substack ► 3/1/25

Sexy Books Are Saving the Publishing Industry ► Substack ► 3/1/25

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