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Nine UK literary festivals including Hay Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival have released a joint statement calling for "increased support" now sponsorship by investment firm Baillie Gifford has ended.

A federal judge in California this week dismissed four of six claims made by authors in a now consolidated lawsuit alleging that Open AI infringes their copyrights. But the court gave the authors a month to amend their complaint, and the suit's core claim of direct infringement-which Open AI did not seek to dismiss-remains active.

Writers struggling to hit their deadlines are a sign of deeper issues in the industry.

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has struggled to stay in the good graces of writers and readers this past year. Reports of companies and individuals using A.I. to spread misinformation, infringe copyright and steal authors' identities have dominated discussions of the technology's role in the books we consume.

We don't just love books for their text, but for the complex humans behind them.