ChatGPT and writers

It has only been a little over a year since ChatGPT rampaged into our modern lives. Yet already certain companies are claiming that they can write an entire book for you in a matter of days - harnessing generative AI, of course. Please note: The books won't contain one bit of original content or any actual stories and wisdom from your life.

As a thousand-person online audience clicked in to the Artificial Intelligence Revolution and Opportunity conference organised by Publishers WeeklyInternational news website of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries http://www.publishersweekly.com/ on Wednesday (27th September), former PRH global c.e.o. Markus Dohle provided the cheerleading keynote, describing himself as "super-excited" as he outlined many of AI's possibilities for publishing.  Read more

Yet another group of authors has filed class action copyright infringement lawsuits against artificial intelligence pioneers Open AI and Meta, claiming the companies' AI services used unauthorized copies of their books to train their AI models, including copies that were allegedly scraped from notorious pirate sites.  Read more

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, a union that represents writers in such professions as books, film, and TV, has revealed the results of a survey about artificial intelligence. Sixty-five percent of respondents said that they believed that the increased use of AI will reduce their income from writing, while 61% were worried that AI could replace jobs in their craft areas.  Read more