Spines is just an AI version of the very typical self-publishing scammers that have always taken advantage of writers.
TikTok's move isn't about AI, it's organic growth: #booktok has become a hugely powerful recommendation engine in the book world. Kathleen Schmidt has been saying for a while they should do this. Looks like they agree wit…
Spines is just an AI version of the very typical self-publishing scammers that have always taken advantage of writers.
TikTok's move isn't about AI, it's organic growth: #booktok has become a hugely powerful recommendation engine in the book world. Kathleen Schmidt has been saying for a while they should do this. Looks like they agree with her.
Microsoft I can't quite figure out. Even if they wanted to pub a bunch of AI-generated titles, how much money could the company possibly make compared to its other rather profitable businesses. Why bother? Possibly they're trying to find a "use case" for the trillions they've thrown at AI and this is what they came up with. Or, their deputy CTO couldn't sell his memoirs to a publisher and convinced somebody inside the company to spin this up.
Regardless, it has occurred to me that we are reading the last generation of pre-AI writers that will ever exist. Writers who don't use AI at all will become like those obscure cheesemakers in little Italian villages making reggiano the way they did 300 years ago. Books written by actual human beings will be a delicacy and a curiosity.
And the love of real writers will explode as a counter to AI-written thievery. From the dark mud flowers will grow and new human talent will emerge. And the most creative and authentic WILL survive and grow rich.
ha! yes, I like that. We need more on-point cheese analogies, so thank you for that ;-) I am and always have been in Club Reggiano, you can count on that. Full-tilt "curiosity" nano-markets. Onward Reggiano!
Yes, that's the issue. It's not only entire books written by AI -- that will happen, too (it already is), but many readers will be able to tell, at least until it improves, which will result in the stigma of slop that it already has.
The real issue is human/AI collaboration. This is already happening, too, and the authors who are doing so are generally not telling people. So these books are not "made by AI", entirely, but the writing of the books is greatly sped up (which is a competitive advantage in some of the more "pulpy" lines of popular fiction) by the use by the human authors of AI in writing/completing the books. This runs the gamut from brainstorming to organizing/outlining to breaking block to editing and so on.
More and more *human* writers are doing this, and not telling anyone (for obvious reasons), and so much of what is written, today, in certain popular fiction genres is "hybrid" -- human/AI collaboration. I expect we will see the same in other "popular" creativity areas, like pop music, pop art illustration and so on.
The "high art" is much less likely to be impacted, I think. But the popular creative work? It's already happening.
Spines is just an AI version of the very typical self-publishing scammers that have always taken advantage of writers.
TikTok's move isn't about AI, it's organic growth: #booktok has become a hugely powerful recommendation engine in the book world. Kathleen Schmidt has been saying for a while they should do this. Looks like they agree with her.
Microsoft I can't quite figure out. Even if they wanted to pub a bunch of AI-generated titles, how much money could the company possibly make compared to its other rather profitable businesses. Why bother? Possibly they're trying to find a "use case" for the trillions they've thrown at AI and this is what they came up with. Or, their deputy CTO couldn't sell his memoirs to a publisher and convinced somebody inside the company to spin this up.
Regardless, it has occurred to me that we are reading the last generation of pre-AI writers that will ever exist. Writers who don't use AI at all will become like those obscure cheesemakers in little Italian villages making reggiano the way they did 300 years ago. Books written by actual human beings will be a delicacy and a curiosity.
And the love of real writers will explode as a counter to AI-written thievery. From the dark mud flowers will grow and new human talent will emerge. And the most creative and authentic WILL survive and grow rich.
ha! yes, I like that. We need more on-point cheese analogies, so thank you for that ;-) I am and always have been in Club Reggiano, you can count on that. Full-tilt "curiosity" nano-markets. Onward Reggiano!
Yes, that's the issue. It's not only entire books written by AI -- that will happen, too (it already is), but many readers will be able to tell, at least until it improves, which will result in the stigma of slop that it already has.
The real issue is human/AI collaboration. This is already happening, too, and the authors who are doing so are generally not telling people. So these books are not "made by AI", entirely, but the writing of the books is greatly sped up (which is a competitive advantage in some of the more "pulpy" lines of popular fiction) by the use by the human authors of AI in writing/completing the books. This runs the gamut from brainstorming to organizing/outlining to breaking block to editing and so on.
More and more *human* writers are doing this, and not telling anyone (for obvious reasons), and so much of what is written, today, in certain popular fiction genres is "hybrid" -- human/AI collaboration. I expect we will see the same in other "popular" creativity areas, like pop music, pop art illustration and so on.
The "high art" is much less likely to be impacted, I think. But the popular creative work? It's already happening.