The publishing giant called on a recent EU directive that clarifies copyright holders' rights in the face of data usage by AI firms.

Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher, will be adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prohibit the use of those books to train AI. The Bookseller reports that new books and reprints of older titles from the publisher will now include the statement,

Penguin Random House (PRH), the largest of the Big Five publishing imprints, is pushing back against its published works being used to train AI. As first reported by The Bookseller, PRH has changed its copyright wording to target AI.

The copyright page on new books and reprints now says they can’t be used or reproduced ‘for the purpose of training artificial intelligence.’