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TORONTO (AP) — Author Sarah Bernstein won the Scotiabank Giller Prize on Monday for her novel “Study for Obedience.”The Montreal-born, Scotland-based author accepted the $100,000 award remotely from Scotland, where she had a baby just 10 days ago. Her novel is about a young woman moving to the remote north where after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occur. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($72,000 U.S.) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Political Cartoons View All 1244 ImagesThe celebrations were also interrupted early in the broadcast when several anti-Israel protesters jumped onstage. The Giller was created in 1994 by late businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
Persons: Sarah Bernstein, Giller, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Jack Rabinovitch, Doris Giller Organizations: TORONTO, Scotiabank, Israel Locations: Montreal, Scotland, Israel
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of earth’s largest animals: the endangered sperm whale. Sperm whales defecate near the surface because they shut down non-vital functions when they dive to depths of up to 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). And sperm whales in Dominica are believed to defecate more than whales elsewhere, said Shane Gero, a whale biologist and founder of the Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a research program focused on sperm whales in the eastern Caribbean. He noted that sperm whales are a matrilineal society, with young males leaving and switching oceans at some point in their lives. Another sperm whale was nicknamed “Fruit Salad” because a researcher happened to be snacking on that at the time.
Persons: , Roosevelt Skerrit, Shane Gero, Gero, ” Gero, Vincent, , Enric Sala, , ’ ” Gero, Margaret Atwood Organizations: JUAN, , Geographic Locations: Puerto Rico, Dominica, ” Dominica, St, Guadeloupe, Caribbean, ‘ I’m
The security cameras were there, at least in part, to make the workers feel insecure about holding on to their jobs, Taylor writes. "We can see the degree to which unnecessary suffering is widespread even among those who appear to be 'winning' according to the logic of the capitalist game," Taylor writes. Astra Taylor: I think there is existential insecurity. by author Astra Taylor Courtesy: Astra TaylorAN: How would being more honest about our own vulnerabilities help? Working with the Debt Collective, I see how lucky we were that we didn't have to take on a lot of medical debt.
Persons: Astra Taylor, Taylor, Massey, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, Annie Nova, I've Organizations: Astra, Astra Taylor's, Brooklyn café, Finance, Social Security, Security, Canadian Broadcasting Corp Locations: American
New York CNN —A group of famous fiction writers joined the Authors Guild in filing a class action suit against OpenAI on Wednesday, alleging the company’s technology is illegally using their copyrighted work. Martin, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen are among the 17 prominent authors who joined the suit led by the Authors Guild, a professional organization that protects writers’ rights. “Generative AI threatens to decimate the author profession,” the Authors Guild wrote in a press release Wednesday. Two other authors sued OpenAI in June over the company’s alleged misuse of their works to train ChatGPT. Authors should have the right to decide when their works are used to ‘train’ AI,” author Jonathan Franzen said in the release on Wednesday.
Persons: OpenAI, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Rasenberger, , Sarah Silverman, Silverman –, ” Sam Altman, Rasenberger, James Patterson, Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood —, Organizations: New, New York CNN, OpenAI, Authors, of, CNN, Amazon, Meta, San, Microsoft Locations: New York, Southern, of New York, San Francisco federal
The raw materials for creating AI
  + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Alistair Barr | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The AI models behind this technology are built using high-quality datasets from millions of different sources. These are the raw materials for model "training," in industry parlance. Nvidia GPUs are the main hardware required for AI model training. AdvertisementAdvertisementOver 8,000 authors, including Margaret Atwood and James Patterson, signed an open letter demanding compensation from AI companies for using their works to train AI without permission. Got a tip or insights about the leading AI companies OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Meta?
Persons: ChatGPT, Nat Friedman, Ben Thompson, Friedman, There's, OpenAI, Reddit, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Atwood, James Patterson, JK Rowling's Harry Potter, Alistair Barr Organizations: Service, Nvidia, Tech, Amazon, LexisNexis, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Twitter Locations: Wall, Silicon, abarr@insider.com
The Holbrooke award, named for the late U.S. diplomat, is presented by the Ohio-based Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. In 1995, Holbrooke helped broker the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian War, a conflict Cisneros has thought of often. Civilians and unborn generations ever after suffer with the shrapnel of that conflict embedded in their psyche like hidden landmines. I just returned from Sarajevo, and I know this is true,” Cisneros said in a statement. Previous recipients of the Holbrooke award include Elie Wiesel, Margaret Atwood and Louise Erdrich.
Persons: Sandra Cisneros, Richard C, Holbrooke, ” Cisneros, Alfredo Cisneros, Cisneros, , Carla Hayden, Elie Wiesel, Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich Organizations: Macondo Foundation, Moral Foundation, Dayton, Dayton Peace Accords Locations: Mango, U.S, Ohio, Dayton, Bosnian, Sarajevo
Athletics - Diamond League - Xiamen Diamond League - Egret Stadium, Xiamen, China - September 2, 2023 Christian Coleman of the U.S. celebrates after winning the men's 100m final REUTERS/Aly Song Acquire Licensing RightsXIAMEN, China, Sept 2 (Reuters) - American Christian Coleman powered to victory in the men's 100 metres race at the Xiamen Diamond League as the premier one-day series returned to China for the first time in four years on Saturday after COVID disruptions. Coleman crossed the line in a joint world leading time of 9.83 seconds to draw huge roars at the Egret Stadium in Xiamen, which replaced Shenzhen and will continue to host one of two Diamond League meetings in the Asian nation until 2032. American 2022 world champion Fred Kerley, who failed to qualify for the final at the Budapest world championships last month, took bronze in 9.96 seconds. Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs has barely raced since his Tokyo Olympics victory and finished a disappointing seventh. The Diamond League heads to Brussels on Sept. 8 before the season concludes in Eugene on Sept. 16-17.
Persons: Christian Coleman, Aly, Coleman, Kishane Thompson, Fred Kerley, Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Kirani James, James, Jamaica's Rusheen McDonald, Beatrice Chebet, Mexico's Laura Galvan, Kenyan Margaret Akidor, Shrivathsa Sridhar, Helen Popper Our Organizations: Diamond League, Xiamen Diamond League, Rights, Tokyo Olympics, Quincy Hall, Kenyan, Thomson Locations: Xiamen, China, Rights XIAMEN, Shenzhen, Budapest, Tokyo, Brussels, Eugene, Bengaluru
King said that he's not opposed to programmers using his works to teach AI about creativity. Thousands of other authors have objected to their work being used in AI without permission. Uploading the works of others to computers, or "state-of-the-art digital blenders" as he put it, can teach AI how to produce better art. AdvertisementAdvertisementKing said that forbidding programmers from using his to teach AI is essentially pointless. Or a Luddite trying to stop industrial progress by hammering a steam loom to pieces," King wrote.
Persons: Stephen King, King, he's, Margaret Atwood, James Patterson, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, King Canute Organizations: The Atlantic, Morning, Authors, Apple
CNN —Poetry, prose and now songwriting: Ghent University in Belgium is launching a new literature course dedicated to the literary merit of Taylor Swift’s discography. “Highly prolific and autobiographical in her songwriting, Swift makes frequent allusions to canonical literary texts in her music,” the class syllabus explains. “Using Swift’s work as a springboard, we will explore, among other topics, literary feminism, ecocriticism, fan studies, and tropes such as the anti-hero. In 2016, the University of Texas launched an English Literature course unpacking Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade” and its relationship to Black feminism. “But if anyone can teach you a lesson in how to respond to trolls, it’s Taylor Swift,” she concluded.
Persons: Taylor, Elly McCausland, McCausland, Sylvia Plath, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare —, Geoffrey Chaucer’s “, Criseyde, Charlotte Brontë’s “, Margaret Atwood, Simon Armitage, , Swift, Taylor Swift, ” McCausland, , Sylvia Plath’s, , I’ll, “ I’m, There’s, it’s Taylor Swift Organizations: CNN, Ghent University, Oxford University, University of York, University of Oslo, New York University, Arizona State University, Berklee College of Music, Rice University, University of Texas, University of Copenhagen Locations: Belgium, Charlotte Brontë’s “ Villette, , , United Kingdom, Norway, Europe, United States, Houston
Others have said they don’t want their work being used to train AI models, which could then be used to imitate them. Amazon removed the fake books being sold under Friedman’s name and said its policies prohibit such imitation. Author Jane Friedman found several books being sold under her name on Amazon, only she didn't write them — she suspects artificial intelligence did. The Authors Guild has been working with Amazon since this past winter to address the issue of books written by AI, Rasenberger said. And, she said, companies and publishers should continue investing in creative work made by humans, even if AI appears more convenient.
Persons: Jane Friedman, I’ve, ” Friedman, , ” Mary Rasenberger, Rasenberger, James Patterson, Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood —, OpenAI, Friedman, they’d, Ashley Vanicek, , Suzanne Skyvara Organizations: New, New York CNN, Amazon, CNN, Authors, Microsoft, Twitter Locations: New York
Zoom angered users after its terms of service suggested it could use calls to train AI. Zoom also says it won't use the content of calls to train its AI models "without your consent." On August 6, the tech news blog Stack Diary pointed out the section of Zoom's terms of service. But as Stack Diary points out, the clarification may not fully protect your calls, based on the specific language in Zoom's terms of service. The clarifications in Zoom's terms of service come as members of the public have expressed outrage over their data being used to train AI.
Persons: Gabriella Coleman, Brianna Wu, Smita Hashim, Aparna Bawa, Sean Hogle, — includingSuzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, Organizations: Harvard, Hacker, Hacker News
OpenAI launched a new web crawler called GPTBot to browse the internet and collect information. However, adding one line of code to a website will block the crawler from accessing the site's data. Adding just one line of code to a website will now block OpenAI from using the site's data to train its AI models. A web crawler is a bot that browses the internet to collect information. Search engines like Google use web crawlers to collect information for their search results, while AI companies use these crawlers to collect data to train their models.
Persons: OpenAI, Michael Veale, ChatGPT —, James Patterson, Margaret Atwood — Organizations: Morning, University College London, MIT Technology, OpenAI
DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, by Diana AthillTwenty-three years ago, Diana Athill wrote “Stet,” a memoir of her life as an editor in which she outlined the pleasures of her profession. And she did a good bit of gift-wrapping herself: In her long life Athill published no fewer than 10 memoirs, two collections of short stories and, in 1967, “Don’t Look at Me Like That,” her only novel. By the time of its writing, she already had her first autobiography, “Instead of a Letter,” under her belt. Although the novel is set primarily in the 1950s — its protagonist, Meg Bailey, is some years younger than her creator — Athill and her heroine share a similar social status (both had titled grandfathers) and an artistic London milieu. “They buttoned over the chest, had an obscene vent between the legs and were very warm.”
Persons: Diana Athill, “ Stet, , Athill, André, Simone de Beauvoir, V.S, Naipaul, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, Meg Bailey, — Athill, Helen Oyeyemi, Meg Organizations: André Deutsch Ltd Locations: London
There has been deepening criticism of AI companies from across the media and entertainment industries. Over 8,000 authors — including Margaret Atwood and James Patterson — have signed an open letter demanding compensation from AI companies for using their works to train AI without permission. The letter is addressed to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. AI systems are trained on large volumes of data, much of which is text scraped from the internet. These authors aren't alone in voicing collective discontent towards AI companies.
Persons: Margaret Atwood, James Patterson —, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Emad Mostaque, Arvind Krishna, Satya Nadella, Guild's, Dan Brown, Suzanne Collins —, OpenAI, Sarah Silverman, aren't, , Sarah Andersen —, they've, Insider's Matthew Loh Organizations: Morning, Microsoft, Wall Street Journal, Google, IBM
Washington CNN —Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development. In an open letter they signed, posted by the Authors Guild Tuesday, the writers accused AI companies of unfairly profiting from their work. “Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the ‘food’ for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill,” the letter said. “The high commerciality of your use argues against fair use,” the authors wrote to the AI companies. In May, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to acknowledge more needs to be done to address concerns from creators about how AI systems use their works.
Persons: Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, James Patterson, Jodi Picoult, Philip Pullman, , OpenAI, didn’t, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Atwood Rich Fury, Monika Skolimowska, Goldsmith, Andy Warhol, Prince, Warhol, Sam Altman, “ We’re, , , Catherine Thorbecke Organizations: Washington CNN, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Warhol
Thousands of Israelis blocked major highways and held dozens of rallies across central Israel on Tuesday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to finalize a law next week that would limit the power of the Supreme Court. Despite temperatures of more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit in some places, protesters marched through several cities in a renewed effort to stop the government proceeding with a binding vote on the law in Parliament, which is likely to be on Monday. Some held huge roadside banners that read “Netanyahu divides the nation,” while others displayed a giant picture of Theodor Herzl, a founding father of modern Zionism, emblazoned with the slogan: “This is not what I meant.”One group hung a giant version of the Israeli declaration of independence from a highway flyover, and another blocked the doors to the Tel Aviv stock exchange. Women’s rights activists — dressed in crimson robes inspired by characters from “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel by Margaret Atwood about a patriarchal, totalitarian state that was made into a television series — rallied in Raanana, central Israel.
Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Netanyahu, Theodor Herzl, , , Margaret Atwood Organizations: Tel Locations: Israel, Tel Aviv, Raanana
Opinion | What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
There are the novels the literary world acclaims and there are the novels people actually read. With rare exceptions, these books are written by women, for women. And for the past few years, these books have been written by Colleen Hoover. In 2022 alone, Hoover’s novels sold 14.3 million copies and in total, more than 24 million copies to date. As Hoover herself explained her popularity in an interview in The Times: “It’s not me.
Persons: Colson Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, James, Stephanie Meyer’s, Meyer, Anne Rice, Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins, Tom Clancy, Colleen Hoover, Hoover, , Organizations: The Times Locations: Ocean, Rice’s, TikTok
FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried shot a MasterClass video on crypto last year, per The New York Times. He recorded the video last summer, months before FTX collapsed, according to the report. FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried is thought to have shot a video for MasterClass, which offers classes taught by celebrity experts, just months before his crypto exchange collapsed. The existence of Bankman-Fried's MasterClass had only been a social media rumor around the time FTX collapsed prior to The Times' report. MasterClass, Bankman-Fried and Kives did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.
Persons: Sam Bankman, FTX, MasterClass, SBF's, Fried, Michael Kives, Kives, Crypto, Changpeng Zhao, Emilie Choi, Paul Krugman, Chris Dixon, Coinbase, Gordon Ramsay, Garry Kasparov, Margaret Atwood, Fried's MasterClass, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bill Clinton, Elon Musk, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ron DeSantis Organizations: New York Times, Morning, Hollywood, Bankman, MasterClass, Times, Alameda Research Locations: MasterClass, Alameda
That’s the idea behind the mother-daughter tour of Florence in “The Light in the Piazza,” the 2005 musical romance composed by Adam Guettel and written by Craig Lucas. revival directed by Chay Yew opened on Wednesday, a sensational performance by Ruthie Ann Miles delivers a feeling close to the sublime. She honeymooned in Italy; now it’s the summer of 1953, and her marital flame is dimming just as her daughter, Clara (Anna Zavelson), first discovers desire. That Margaret and Clara are Asian American adds a further layer of shading to their outsiderness abroad. (“I’m as different here as different can be,” Clara sings.)
Persons: Adam Guettel, Craig Lucas, Chay Yew, Ruthie Ann Miles, Miles, “ Sweeney Todd, , Margaret, Clara, Anna Zavelson, Miles imbues, ” Clara, it’s, Fabrizio, James D, Gish Organizations: New York City Center, Broadway Locations: Florence, , Italy, American
David Solomon has been Goldman Sachs' CEO for over four years since succeeding Lloyd Blankfein. There's been a lot of talk about the morale at Goldman Sachs. Solomon said there were fewer "partner transitions at Goldman Sachs" in 2022 than any year "going back to 2014." Meanwhile, Solomon's expensive foray into consumer banking raised the ire of some longtime Goldman partners, as Insider has previously reported. The fresh faces among the Goldman Sachs executives who took the stage at the bank's investor day highlight the leadership changes under Solomon.
To figure out what GPT-4 has read, they quizzed it on its knowledge of various books, as if it were a high-school English student. One way to answer the question is to look for information that could have come from only one place. Genre — sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror — is, broadly speaking, more interesting, partially because these books have plots where things actually happen. Bamman's GPT-4 list is a Borgesian library of episodic connections, cliffhangers, third-act complications, and characters taking arms against seas of troubles (and whales). See what a bot makes of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," maybe, or Sheri Tepper's "Grass."
It’s Me, Margaret,’ Margaret and her friends navigate the perils of tweendom. Photo: Lions Gate/Courtesy Everett CollectionIt was an intimate day on the set of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” the first movie adaptation of one of American publishing’s defining coming-of-age novels. The scene involved the title character putting a sanitary pad in her underwear for the first time. “This whole time,” a middle-aged man in the crew confided to the director, “I thought the sticky side went up.”
April 28 (Reuters) - Scores of famous figures, including writers and actors, have signed an open letter urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to free opposition politician Alexei Navalny and to end what they called his torture in prison. Russian authorities say Navalny and his supporters are extremists with links to the U.S. CIA intelligence agency intent on trying to destabilise Russia. They have outlawed his movement and Navalny himself is facing new charges that could add years to his prison sentence. Navalny's supporters have grown increasingly worried about his health in recent weeks, saying they fear he could die in jail. The Kremlin denied trying to kill him and said there was no evidence he was poisoned with a nerve agent.
When I arrived at the Crosby Street Hotel for a screening of “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret?,” a man in the lobby located my name on a list, then directed me to a line for the coat check. Mine said, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Elisabeth.”Unfortunately, I’d stopped reading the invitation after “Please join us for an afternoon with Judy Blume”; what more did I need to know? I was Margaret, too.
Women dressed as "Handmaids" are at the forefront of mass protests against the Netanyahu government. Netanyahu's plans to lessen the power of the Israeli supreme court. The protests in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu's plans to lessen the power of the Israeli Supreme Court in favor of elected officials. Israeli protesters wearing costumes from ''The Handmaid's Tale'' particiapte in a rally against Israeli Goverment's judicial overhaul bills at Haogen Junctions on March 16, 2023. Gili Yaari/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesPeople around the world are also voicing concerns about Netanyahu's plans.
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