The TAA AI Committee, led by Chair Brenda Ulrich, has been working diligently on its three-prong goals of advocacy, education and support to TAA members around the issues that AI, and in particular GenAI and LLMs (Learning Language Models), present in the academic and textbook publishing areas. To that end, it has developed a position statement to reflect the views of TAA regarding the challenges and risks of GenAI to creators, educators and learners. TAA members were invited to provide feedback on the statement during a 30-day comment period that commenced on March 15, 2026.

The Graphic Artists Guild has launched the “No Artists, No Art” campaign to publicize the need to protect visual artists’ rights in a generative AI environment. The campaign’s message is twofold:

1. Without high-quality creative works to train on, generative AI will deliver poorer and poorer quality outputs.
2. In order to have a robust generative AI economy, the rights of creators and copyright holders need to be protected.

The Independent Book Publishers Association (IPBA)’s Legislation & Standards Committee compiled a list of AI tools currently in use by publishers. Available to IBPA members only, it includes over 50 tools that can help with proofreading, image generation, manuscript evaluation, plagiarism checking, writing and posting on social media, summarizing book plots, and many more. The IBPA AI Resource Center also contains many resources such as a sample AI policy statement, and a site that helps you find out if your book has been used to train AI without your consent.