NEW REPORT – The Impact of Generative AI and the Novel 📚 Today we've published new research by De Clementine Collett examining how industry practitioners, from novelists to publishers, are experiencing AI’s significant impacts. Read now:

NEW PAPER💡 Our Deputy Director Prof @AKGlenster has published a @Kennedy_School @CarrCenter paper on why deceptive designs are still so prevalent online and how a shift from consumer protection to epistemic rights can help mitigate them. Read now➡️ https://t.co/Jye7aWFHHA

📣 Our ED @ginasue has been appointed Chair of the Wales Strategic AI Council! The advisory group provides independent advice on AI adoption across the Welsh public sector and helps @WelshGovernment shape AI to improve the lives of people across Wales. ➡️ https://t.co/PXLg9YJwXA

"Our creative industries are not expendable collateral damage in the race to develop AI. They are national treasures worth defending. This report shows us how,” Prof Gina Neff, Executive Director of @MCTDCambridge https://t.co/SRutlr9djJ

Where are we on the “digital ethics” conversation❓ Our Policy Manager Tom Lacy reflects on @techUK's Digital Ethics Summit. He looks at the themes that framed the day (people, assurance, and security) and how dialogue with tech companies is shifting. ➡️

Panel 3, Legislative Solutions and Global Lessons, examined Taiwan’s Fraud Crime Hazard Prevention Act and Indonesia's code of conduct for trustworthy AI to mitigate deepfake-driven identity fraud, to draw lessons from international innovation in regulating AI scams.

Some jurisdictions have already started regulating AI-enabled fraud. Centre founder, @taylor_owen, asked @ginasue (@MCTDCambridge) and Mediodecci Lustarini (Directorate General of Digital Space Monitoring, Indonesia) what Canada can learn from international regulatory models. 🧵

Will generative AI lead to a loss of creativity and de-skilling in younger generations? Dive into @clemi_collett's new report into generative AI's impact on the novel: https://t.co/C8ZXGCKdDv @MCTDCambridge

Thanks so much for drawing attention to this issue - for over 25 years ALCS have protected authors from photocopying - now this new challenge needs to be addressed @MCTDCambridge

More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work https://t.co/KjOFVeadBS Impact of Generative AI on the Novel https://t.co/y6Q3JAkpNL report from @MCTDCambridge by Dr Clementine Collett #genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy

This research from @clemi_collett was made possible by funding from BRAID UK and published in association with @MCTDCambridge and @FutureWorkInst. Read more at @Cambridge_Uni ➡️ https://t.co/NVYDNTZ72X

Our report calls on Government to protect the UK's literary scene❗️ It urges Government not to implement exceptions to copyright law and instead recommends reinforcing copyright through a dynamic, accessible, and fair licensing market for AI training. https://t.co/uIXO7XPm4H

Literary works are being pirated then scraped to train GenAI models. 59% of novelists reported they knew their work had been used to train GenAI models. Of these, 99% said they did not give permission and 100% said they were not remunerated for this use. https://t.co/uIXO7XPm4H

Novels contribute substantially to our culture, education, identity, wellbeing, and entertainment. However, with the rise of GenAI, novelists, publishers, and the novel itself are experiencing unprecedented uncertainty, change, and challenge. https://t.co/uIXO7XPm4H

"The findings in this report should sound the alarm. The fears novelists have shared with us are not abstract concerns, but real challenges faced by people whose craft sustains British culture and one of its most successful industries." - @ginasue https://t.co/uIXO7XPm4H

A new in-depth survey of the UK fiction publishing industry from @MCTDCambridge reveals deep insights about how AI is affecting it. Read how AI is viewed by novelists and industry insiders, what impact it's already had, and what the future of human-AI fiction could be:

Novels written without artificial intelligence will become an “expensive luxury”, according to the author of a report 👇 https://t.co/YfDL0PuoNT

Novelists are worried that artificial intelligence (AI) could take their jobs, according to a report. Read more here ➡️ https://t.co/gCYT4ipAgG (📷 Gemma Turnbull Photography)

About half of UK novelists fear AI will take their work entirely – study

'Widespread concern from novelists that generative AI trained on vast amounts of fiction will undermine the value of writing' https://t.co/caodstkbGz

More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work https://t.co/JoB3Cojsd4 This is depressing. And most international writers don't get anything from the Anthropic AI settlement, because we don't have US copyright registration, for why would we?