Atticus

Read. Listen. Ask your books anything. Live in private beta with leading authors and publishers.

[Atticus @readwithatticus]

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[Atticus @readwithatticus]

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[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI/Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI-generated books would likely displace human-authored books in the market. https://t.co/pON3y4Ot8k

[TechRadar @techradar]

"Unlicensed, unrestricted AI training could destroy the ecosystem for books": The Authors Guild https://t.co/kbZu6L5DLR

[Keegan Rosenberger @Keegrose]

The detail that should stop the publishing industry cold: they're buying used books.

Which means the author whose work is being ingested doesn't see a cent… not from the sale, not from the scan, not from the model.

There was always a version of this where you ask first and pay for rights. We're building it @readwithatticus

[Atticus @readwithatticus]

@shreyas Atticus was purpose built for this. A reading platform where every book talks back. We’re live in iOS private beta now with top authors like Seth Godin, Mark Manson, Reid Hoffman and Chase Jarvis.

[Keegan Rosenberger @Keegrose]

Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement last week sharpens the case for Atticus.

The underlying ruling drew a distinction between two uses of books in AI: training a model on lawfully acquired copies was fair use on the facts of this case; building a permanent library from millions of pirated books was not.

But Atticus is not in the training-data fight.

We operate at the point where AI interacts directly with the reader—licensing the right to retrieve, quote, cite, and explain copyrighted books inside a commercial reading product.

That permission changes the experience entirely.

General-purpose chatbots can discuss a book. But without licensed access to the complete text, they can’t reliably ground every answer in the source and take you back to the exact passage.

Atticus can, because every book in our catalog is there with the rightsholder’s permission.

Readers get richer, fully cited answers. Authors and publishers keep control—and get paid when their work creates value.

Atticus is building the licensed interaction layer for books.

https://t.co/8P1ELKiNwg

[Keegan Rosenberger @Keegrose]

We’re going to see more and more announcements like this one.

Authors and publishers are being stolen from by most large AI companies, who ingest their copyrighted works to train models without permission.

The good news: we are building an outlet and framework that enables rights holders to control and profit from the use of their IP in LLMs.

[Atticus @readwithatticus]

@LewisHowes Asking my AI twin to tuck me under the covers and read me a story

[Atticus @readwithatticus]

Atticus is bringing content to life with AI, creating a new category of interactive, smart audiobooks 📚

[Atticus @readwithatticus]

@SahilBloom 👏👏👏

We should talk!

[John Collison @collision]

I can't wait for Audible x AI voice models where you can interrupt non-fiction books to ask questions.

[Atticus @readwithatticus]

For thousands of years, books have been
humanity's greatest source of knowledge.

Today, we are giving them a voice.