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The Atlantic documents AI-generated titles published under real authors’ names. Fans have bought them. Amazon removes listings after a complaint — and does not check authorship at upload.
TechCrunch reports newly unsealed material in the Times v. OpenAI case, a week after the US Justice Department backed OpenAI’s fair-use argument.
Trade press says value optimisation now includes a profit-based ROAS beta via the Conversions API, plus event-based ROAS for subscriptions and first purchases.
Library and Archives Canada now makes authors declare a human wrote the book. Grammar and formatting help is allowed. Generated text, art, or translation is not.
