A scheme to show books written without AI

[Libby]

As boundaries continue to blur between human creativity and AI, here’s a  new kite-mark scheme to help readers distinguish. It will be interesting to see what happens from this small beginning.

https://booksbypeople.org/

[Libby]

Hi Sandra, I saw your comment about self-pub authors but it has disappeared from the thread. As you say, it’s harder to see how authors could guarantee their own writing. I expect someone will think of something to address this, or try to address it.

I also think some readers will seek out AI novels because AI writing will be reliable. It will tick various boxes, just like real-life authors can do.

And then there will be the writers who’ll use and adapt AI to do something interesting, and be upfront about it.

[Athelstone]

I think you’re right.

Of course, AI writing is effectively a sampling of other authors’ work, albeit with some sophisticated algorithms that hide the truth away. An author may say that they are using AI to produce something original, but AI simply won’t work with just small samples such as from one author. It needs a “large language model” as well, i.e. an absolutely colossal database of samples. The only way to acquire the millions of entries is to rip them from online/published sources.

 

[Athelstone]

Incidentally, Sandra’s comment is still there but she replied to the update on the activity page rather than directly to the thread

[Libby]

Thanks, Ath. Yes, I was thinking that writers might collect some AI produced fiction and do something with its tropes, sort of like Pop Art did. I’m vague about this. Am looking for reasons for optimism!

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