Newshour - Stop using our books to train AI without consent, say authors - BBC Sounds

The Authors Guild, a professional organisation for American writers, has written an open letter calling for big tech companies to compensate them fairly for using their work to train AI.

Without human source material, the technology can't learn how to write for itself. The authors claim they've not given permission for access to their work, nor been paid for the value it's added.

Maya Shanbhag Lang is an author of fiction and the president of the Guild. She describes why the situation is like going into a famous restaurant, eating well, then not paying.