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- Authors who participated in a 2022 Google AI study faced backlash over their involvement, per Engadget's reporting on the controversy.
- Literary agents responded by demanding transparent AI policies to protect authors, describing the broader AI situation as something "we all live in fear of," per Books+Publishing and The Bookseller coverage.
Why it matters: Literary agents publicly framed the backlash as a wider fear authors live with and demanded transparent AI policies — elevating consent and disclosure from a background concern to a direct industry ask explicitly tied to this specific 2022 Google study.
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