The team at Purple Toga has spent some time in the past week adding this to our published novels and anthologies:

All members of our team work with artificial intelligence systems in other areas of their professional life, both revolving around responsible and ethical usage of technologies to solve real problems in appropriate ways. Beside deeply understanding the technology, all are also authors and creators, and feel strongly about the current state of the AI industry when it comes to generative AI.

In respect to publishing novels and other stories, we strongly believe that:

• Story-telling is a deeply human activity, and we would like to support the humans that choose to pursue it.
• The same extends to all art, which is a critical response to the human condition of its time.
• We believe that this is a fundamental part of what it means to be human, and that this should be nurtured and encouraged.

We therefore take the following stance:

• All creators should have a say in whether their art work is used in machine learning, and should be offered compensation. The current practice of most industry vendors to disregard copyrights and ignore creators is abhorent.
• We do not accept stories written by such artificial intelligence generative systems, nor stories where it was was used for anything more involved than spell-checking. A human hand is required in both writing and editing stories, and we have the team to support that.
• We expressly forbid any work published under the Purple Toga™️ logo to be used in training artificial intelligence systems, without the explicit, written permissions of both the author and publisher, or graphic artist and publisher in the case of covers and other artwork.

We realise that it may not mean much to big tech companies in their rapacious pursuit of profits, and are continually watching developments while hoping that regulation — the same as has been applied to pharmaceuticals and other industries — will come sooner rather than later.

Until then, you are invited to read our books, knowing the are 100% made by humans, for humans.