The copyright page on new books and reprints now says they can’t be used or reproduced ‘for the purpose of training artificial intelligence.’

Penguin Random House is the latest publisher to push back against AI encroachment. Earlier this week, The New York Times sent a cease and desist letter to AI start-up Perplexity, demanding it stop using its articles to generate responses for its model.

AI (artificial intelligence) companies have faced a lot of criticism from artists, developers, companies and authors from across the globe for training their AI models on the copyrighted data. Now, one of the biggest publishing companies in the world,

Artificial intelligence makers have faced a mountain of criticism for borrowing from the work of others to train its models. Now the world’s largest publishing house is taking steps to ensure its authors don’t have their work plagiarized in the name of progress.