At Apricot Services, our mission is to “champion truth-tellers in today’s noisy world”—so we want to spotlight some recent conversations around the ethics of AI use in Christian publishing to clarify some of the noise.
by Katelyn Beaty on March 27, 2025
I think we have a harder time wrapping our minds around intellectual theft, of thinking of others’ ideas and creative work as property. The Internet has trained us to interact with content (words, images, videos) in ways that obscure that actual people have made and own what we’re consuming. And, a lot of us consume so much online content each day that we have a hard time remembering where we saw what.
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But the Meta AI piracy scandal ought to be doubly concerning for Christians, who have a unique view of creative work. We believe that when we take pen to page, when we take brush to canvas, even when we open Canva and create a social media post, we are living out the likeness of our infinitely creative God. When we create, we are bearing witness to our image-bearing capacity.
by Ed Nawotka on March 21, 2025
For its part, OpenAI and others lobbied the Trump administration to essentially deregulate the industry by eliminating all guardrails—including, potentially, any responsibility to respect copyright.
Meanwhile, publishing houses, industry trade groups, and authors have taken the issue of copyright violations to court, hoping that the rule of law will prevail. At present, there are more than three dozen copyright lawsuits pending.
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Industry leaders who spoke with PW about the topic this past month emphasized that they aren’t opposed to AI development. They simply want clarity, compensation, and control over what comes next.
on PR Newswire on February 20, 2025
The technology empowers publishers and creators of values-aligned content to extend their reach while ensuring ethical use and fair compensation for their intellectual property. It also ensures responsible use by AI companies for model training and in applications like chatbots, apps and robotics.
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