Screenwriters and authors, actually 9,000 authors – including bestselling authors Dan Brown, James Patterson, Burl Barer, Lee Goldberg, Magaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins, and Michael Chabon – have signed an open letter to AI companies about compensating writers fairly for their contributions to AI training data. In the letter, the Guild argued that AI output trained on copyrighted work is derivative, and writers should be paid royalties.