【考前福利放送】南京市2026届高三下学期第二次模拟考试(三模)D篇:人工智能与文学版权

Books were stamped with "Human Authored" logos at this week’s London Book Fair. The Society of Authors described its labelling as "an important logo to protect and promote human creativity instead of AI labelled content in the marketplace".

Visitors to the fair were also given copies of Don’t Steal This Book, a collection of 10,000 writers including Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro and Richard Osman, in which the pages are completely blank. The back cover states: "The UK government must not legalize book theft to benefit AI companies."

The empty book is a protest against AI companies using copyrighted works without permission or payment to train their models — and against UK government proposals that could legalize this practice. Organized by Ed Newton-Rex, a composer and copyright campaigner, the project has drawn vast support from the literary world. The AI industry is "built on stolen work" "This is a crime that has victims," he added, "Generative AI competes with the creators of the works it trains on, taking away their livelihoods."

The protest comes just a week before the UK government is due to publish an economic impact assessment of proposed changes to copyright law. The government initially proposed a system, under which AI firms could use copyrighted material unless rights holders refused permission — an exact opposite of copyright law’s core principle. Only 3% of people surveyed backed the plan. The government dropped it but is now considering a "commercial research exception" that would still allow AI companies to use works without approval for commercial training.

For the authors behind Don’t Steal This Book, the blank pages are a powerful symbol: they represent the future of writing if AI companies continue to use creative work without payment — a world where authors are left with nothing. As the Society of Authors put it, the empty book is "a stopgap measure" — but the real solution is a copyright system that protects human creativity, not commercial greed.

32. Why were the books stamped with "Human Authored" logos?

A. To show public sympathy for authors.

B. To fight AI’s stealing copyrighted works.

C. To promote newly-published works.

D. To introduce promising authors.

33. What does the underlined word "victims" in paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Ordinary readers.

B. Literary promotion campaigns.

C. Human writers.

D. Generative AI models.

34. What is paragraph 4 mainly about?

A. The protest weakening UK’s economy.

B. Copyright law enjoying public support.

C. AI firms prioritizing commercial profits.

D. The UK government favoring AI companies.

35. How does the Society of Authors view the empty book?

A. It is a band-aid fix

B. It stands the test of time.

C. It is a game changer.

D. It works once and for all.