The authors invite publishers to limit their use of Amnesty International

and Open message From authors including Lauren Group, Lev Grossman, RF Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on books publishers to pledge to limit the use of artificial intelligence tools, for example by commitment to employing a human audio novel.

The letter argues that the authors’ work has been “stolen” by artificial intelligence companies: “Instead of paying the book with a small percentage of the money that our work earns them, another person will be paid in exchange for a technology based on our unpaid work.”

Among other obligations, the authors call on publishers to “submit a pledge that they will never launch books created by a machine” and “do not replace their human employees with artificial intelligence tools or their positions deteriorate to artificial intelligence screens.”

While the initial message was signed through a list of impressive from the book, NPR reports Another 1100 signatures were added within 24 hours after it was initially published.

The authors also sue technology companies to use their books to train artificial intelligence models, but federal judges I dealt with big blows For these lawsuits Earlier this week.