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13 Organisations signing on AI Act

For an innovation and creator friendly AI Act

Europe’s creative community urges EU policymakers to put transparency back at the heart of the EU AI Act. As the AI Act is entering into the final round of negotiations,…

CATASTROPHES, SUBMERGIBLES AND LIES ABOUT AI

By Dr Miguel Ángel Serrano, President of EWC and Human writer. @Gustavo Queipo de Llano The author reflects on some developments in the career of Sam Altman, CEO, former CEO…

Thoughts on merchandising protected authors’ works

Régis Ecosse is a french filmmaker The development of smart programs (the so-called “artificial intelligence”), whether generative or not, applied to the cultural world, originates massively from the United States.…

Al Act: Letter of concern on the stopped negotiations on 10th November

Al Act Proposal Trilogue: Letter of concern on the stopped negotiations over Foundation Models It was with great dismay that we learned of the termination of the negotiations during the…

A DYSTOPIAN DREAM ON IA

On the occasion of the international conference Challenges of European Book and Reading Policy, organised by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and  the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the…

EIBF, FEP, EWC – Common Statement: For the sake of the book chain and democracy

On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest book fair in the world, the European Writers’ Council (EWC), the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) and the European and…

THE CLAW IN THE GLASS BOX: CHILDREN, ART AND AI

By Oisín McGann, Irish writer and graphic artist.                     You are an artist suffering from a strange kind of amnesia. You…

The success of Generative AI in the book sector is based on theft

Generative, analytical and assistive informatics, sub-areas of so-called artificial “intelligence”, threatens numerous jobs and fields of labour in the book sector and will replace some professions by machines in the…
13 Organisations signing on AI Act

AI Act: 13 International and European Authors’ and Performers’ federations call for a human centric approach to generative AI

The EWC, together with 12 European and International authors’, performers’ and other creative workers’ organisations, urgently call for a human centric approach to generative AI, built upon informed consent, transparency,…

Speech on AI for our Welcome reception in June at Berlin

© Dapper Entertainment By René Sydow, German satirist, author and performer The following is a speech given by Mr Sydow at the EWC Annual General Meeting Welcome reception, held in…

DICTIONARY ON ADVANCED INFORMATICS (AI)

Already, numerous criminal and damaging “AI business models” have developed in the book sector – with fake authors, fake books and also fake readers. It has been proved that the…

Stolen Identities and Click Farms

By Eystein Hanssen, Vice President of the European Writers’ Council, Chair of the Norwegian Society of Authors.     Amazon experiences a flood of pseudonym authors generated by Artificial Intelligence,…
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