PARIS Publishing giants and generative artificial intelligence companies are striking deals that aim to both protect copyright and provide for the rapidly increasing needs of the AI industry. U.S. publishing giant HarperCollins has reached a contract with an unnamed tech company allowing it to use some of its books to train its generative AI models. In a letter seen by AFP, the tech company is proposing a payment of $2,500 per selected book to train its so-called large language model (LLM) for