Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the prominent authors endorsing the letter addressed to the CEOs of OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, IBM and Stability AI. In the letter organised by the Authors Guild, the largest professional writers' organisation in the United States, the signatories call attention to the "inherent injustice in exploiting our works as part of your AI systems without our consent, credit, or compensation". "These technologies mimic and regurgitate our language, stories, style, and ideas. "You're spending billions of dollars to develop AI technology. It is only fair that you compensate us for using our writings, without which AI would be banal and extremely limited."