Major Publishers Quietly Deploy AI While Fighting It in Court

Three of the Big Five U.S. publishing houses are secretly using large language models to generate book covers, back-cover copy, and marketing emails—even as those same companies sue AI firms for copyright infringement. A WIRED investigation found that workers at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette say their employers have deployed AI tools including Claude, ChatGPT, and Jasper across marketing, publicity, and editorial workflows without consistently disclosing the practice to authors or the public.