Microsoft is the mystery AI company licensing HarperCollins books, says Bloomberg

HarperCollins said successful a connection to 404 Media that its woody volition see “select nonfiction backlist titles” and that authors volition person to opt into the grooming program.

One author, Daniel Kibblesmith, posted screenshots a fewer days agone showing that helium was offered $2,500 per publication for a three-year AI licensing contract. Asked what would beryllium an connection he’d see taking, Kibblesmith said successful a station connected Tuesday, “I’d astir apt bash it for a cardinal dollars. I’d bash it for an magnitude of wealth that wouldn’t necessitate maine to enactment anymore, since that’s the extremity end of this technology,”

Not overmuch other is known astir the exemplary HarperCollins’ contented volition train, but a root tells Bloomberg that Microsoft doesn’t mean to make AI-written books with the material. Microsoft declined to comment.

News Corp, the genitor institution of HarperCollins, struck a woody with OpenAI earlier this year, allowing the AI elephantine to bid its models connected New Corp’s integer outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, The Daily Telegraph, and more.