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Police have arrested a Sydney author on child abuse material charges following global outrage over her book entitled ... also formerly a journalist for News Corp publication Penrith Press.
Erotic novel ‘Daddy’s Little Toy’ has been accused of ‘featuring paedophilia’, while the author has called the outcry a ‘big misunderstanding’ ...
Australian writers want the Australian government to support a legal battle against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which is accused ...
Australian author Kerry Greenwood, who died following an illness, was best known for the Phryne Fisher detective series.
Companies developing AI models, such as OpenAI and Meta, train their systems on enormous datasets. These consist of text from newspapers, books (often sourced from unauthorised repositories), academic ...
Pauline Gibb’s latest book Lally’s Law tells the story of a dolphin and her calf rescued from entanglement. With five ...
For most authors (myself included), writing a book is rarely profitable, which makes Meta’s alleged use of books to train their AI systems a tough read.
Per news.com.au and the Daily Telegraph Australia, erotic fiction author Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa ... "police received multiple complaints her latest book contains graphic fictional child ...
This year, Australia will join the event. There’ll be seven different Aussie Book Crawls taking place in Sydney, Newcastle, ...
It revealed that books by authors including ... Lucy Hayward, CEO of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), says she understands why authors are dismayed at the news. "Some of the world's ...