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   Big Five publishers quietly use AI behind the scenes; staff push back

   Interviews with more than two dozen publishing staffers describe how at least three of the Big Five US publishers — HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette — have quietly adopted LLMs such as Claude and ChatGPT for publicity copy, emails to literary agents, cover art and marketing, without public disclosure or author consent. HarperCollins bought Claude, ChatGPT and Jasper licenses and pressed staff into "AI Champion" roles, while Simon & Schuster's early-stage trial of Skan AI's Blueprint drew an employee open letter to CEO Greg Greeley. Workers tie the push to layoffs that left skeleton crews handling two to three times the workload.

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