Author Philip Pullman calls on government to act over 'wicked' AI scraping
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Sam Allard Sir Philip Pullman wrote about Lyra Silvertongue in His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies
Author Sir Philip Pullman has called on the government to change copyright laws on "scraping", where writers' books are used to train artificial intelligence (AI) software to understand and generate human language. Writers whose work has been scraped don't get compensation or recognition, something authors including Kate Mosse and Richard Osman have criticised, saying it could destroy growth in creative fields and amount to "theft". Sir Philip, author of the hugely popular novels about Lyra Silvertongue, the heroine of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies, thinks w
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