The latest on AI tools and the author AI space.
A class action lawsuit alleges Grammarly used the names and likenesses of hundreds of authors, journalists, and editors to sell AI-generated writing feedback without their consent. The feature is now disabled.
Nearly 10,000 authors published a book of only their names at London Book Fair to protest a proposed UK copyright law. The protest isn't anti-AI. It's asking for something AI-positive authors should want too: consent.
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 with a 1 million token context window, meaning you can feed an entire novel into a single session for analysis, continuity checking, or revision help.
Ebook distributor Bookwire is partnering with ElevenLabs to offer AI-narrated audiobook production to its 3,500 publisher clients, potentially unlocking audio versions of titles that never had one.
Eleven v3, ElevenLabs' most emotionally expressive text-to-speech model, is now generally available with audio tags, multi-speaker dialogue, and 70+ languages.
OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Instant, now the default model for all ChatGPT users, delivers noticeably better creative writing and dramatically fewer unnecessary refusals.
The Authors Guild expanded its 'Human Authored' certification to all U.S.-published authors for $10 per title, but the program's binary framing may do more to stigmatize AI-assisted authors than to help readers.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving intact lower court rulings that artwork created entirely by AI without human creative input cannot receive copyright protection.
Spotify now publishes weekly audiobook rankings by genre, giving authors a new discovery channel on a platform with over 250,000 audiobook titles.
Sudowrite's latest update brings two of the most capable AI models available to its fiction writing tools, while also preserving access to older models being retired elsewhere.