Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) is contacting 20,000 authors to request their permission before licensing their content for the training and development of large language models (LLMs)…

…many authors "see the potential for AI to help disseminate their work", with only a small minority declining to license their content. Hill emphasised the importance of keeping authors informed and giving them agency, making licensing feel like a "positive decision for them to be involved in, rather than feel it’s something that’s been done to them".

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