Without in any way limiting the author’s and their publisher’s exclusive rights under copyright, it is expressly prohibited to use any of the author’s works (including books, articles, or the contents of any website, including but not limited to this one, which are published under the Publisher name of either Top in Fiction or TiF Press) to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text. The author reserves all rights to license uses of their works across any platforms.
In addition, it is expressly prohibited to upload any part of any of these authors works to any generative AI programs (including but not limited to Meta, ChatGPT, etc).
Any violation of these rights are infringing on copyright law and copyrights held by the author and their publisher, and may be subject to prosecution, not including the ongoing class action lawsuit in Kadrey v. Meta – of which the author is already included.
The author also asks that no one create AI-generated fan-art, fanfiction, or any kind of material, based on or inspired by their works. Any emails containing such “art” will be deleted unread.
We also decline to knowingly blurb or support any books that were written, in part or as a whole, with generative AI. The waters here can be murky, but if any text in the book was not written by a human, and instead was written by a machine/LLM, then we have no interest in reading it, or anything that the author ever writes.
On a more personal note: Art is human expression created by human hands. That matters to us, and that will always matter to us, so we will give no quarter to machine-generated slop. That is our ongoing stance.
I stole this statement from Jackson Ford of the Frost Files and The Rakada Series, who stole this statement from his buddy Jeremy Szal. I didn’t ask permission but it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.