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Commercial publisher Penguin Random House is adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prevent those books from being used to train artificial intelligence.
Bookseller Reports New books and reprints of older titles from the publisher will now include the phrase, “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any way for the purpose of training artificial intelligence techniques or systems.”
While the use of copyrighted materials to train AI models is currently being contested in multiple lawsuits, Penguin Random House appears to be the first major publisher to update its copyright pages to reflect these new concerns.
The update does not mean that Penguin Random House is completely against the use of AI in book publishing. In August, that is Outline the initial approach to generative AISaying it would “vigorously defend the intellectual property that belongs to our authors and artists” while also promising to “use generative AI tools selectively and responsibly, where we see a clear case that they can achieve our goals.”
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