Author Paranoia About AI Finds New Targets

AI founders need to watch out. It’s no secret that publishers and writers are sensitive about large-language models using their data for training. But just how sensitive became clear in the recent shuttering of a six-year-old publishing dataset called Prosecraft.

The service, created in 2017 by Benji Smith, founder and CEO at word processor Shaxpir, was intended to be a helpful resource to authors. It ranked titles based on how passive or vivid their language is. For …

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