Without in any way limiting the author’s and his publisher’s exclusive rights under copyright, it is expressly prohibited to use any of the author’s works to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text. The author reserves all rights to license uses of his works across any platforms.
In addition, it is expressly prohibited to upload any part of any of this author’s work to any generative AI programs (including but not limited to Meta, ChatGPT, etc).
Any violation of these rights are infringing on copyright law (Copyright Act 1968, to name but a few examples) and may be subjected to prosecution, not including the ongoing class action lawsuit in Kadrey v. Meta – of which the author is already included.
The author also asks that no one “create” AI-generated fan-art, fanfiction, or any kind of material, based on or inspired by his works. Any emails containing such “art” will be deleted unread.
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I will also decline to wittingly blurb or support any books that were written, in part or as a whole, with generative AI. The waters here can be murky, but if any text in the book was not written by a human, and instead was written by a machine/LLM, then I have no interest in reading it, or anything that the author ever writes.
Art is human expression created by human hands. That matters to me, and that will always matter to me, so I will give no quarter to machine-generated slop. That is my ongoing stance.
JEREMY SZAL 