A week in AI is like a year in other industries. I hope these issues become your weekly source of AI information, inspiration, and ideas. If we haven’t met before, I’m Amanda Smith. I write about AI and the fascinating folks who are building in this brave new world.
Good morning. Over the past couple of days we covered two founders taking very different approaches to AI.
One is building the infrastructure to make sure authors get paid when their books power AI systems. The other turned her personal brand into a product and built an AI recruiter from scratch.
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Trip Alder, founder of Scribd, is now tackling one of the biggest questions in AI: how should books be licensed in the age of large language models? His new company, Created by Humans, is building the infrastructure that lets authors license training, reference, and transformative rights to AI companies. Instead of fighting AI with lawsuits, Alder wants to build the rails that route payments back to writers when their work powers answers inside models.
Chloe Spillane built a following by helping people navigate their careers. Then she turned that expertise into software. After flying to New York, pitching her idea at AI events, and finding a technical partner, she launched Chloe AI, a “recruiter in your pocket” trained on her frameworks. Now she’s testing whether a personal brand can evolve into a scalable AI product.
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