The latest on AI tools and the author AI space.
OpenAI has shelved its adult content feature for ChatGPT indefinitely, citing employee and investor concerns. The text-only mode that could have helped romance and erotica authors brainstorm mature scenes is no longer on the roadmap.
AI companies are recruiting improv performers to help models better understand authentic human emotion, a development that could improve the dialogue and character tools authors use every day.
Google's latest Gemini update for Docs includes a 'Match Writing Style' tool that unifies tone and voice across a document, plus a revamped drafting assistant that pulls from your Gmail and Drive.
A class action lawsuit alleges Grammarly used the names and likenesses of hundreds of authors, journalists, and editors to sell AI-generated writing feedback without their consent. The feature is now disabled.
Nearly 10,000 authors published a book of only their names at London Book Fair to protest a proposed UK copyright law. The protest isn't anti-AI. It's asking for something AI-positive authors should want too: consent.
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 with a 1 million token context window, meaning you can feed an entire novel into a single session for analysis, continuity checking, or revision help.
Ebook distributor Bookwire is partnering with ElevenLabs to offer AI-narrated audiobook production to its 3,500 publisher clients, potentially unlocking audio versions of titles that never had one.
Eleven v3, ElevenLabs' most emotionally expressive text-to-speech model, is now generally available with audio tags, multi-speaker dialogue, and 70+ languages.
OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Instant, now the default model for all ChatGPT users, delivers noticeably better creative writing and dramatically fewer unnecessary refusals.
The Authors Guild expanded its 'Human Authored' certification to all U.S.-published authors for $10 per title, but the program's binary framing may do more to stigmatize AI-assisted authors than to help readers.