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Barnes and Noble’s chief executive said he has no problem stocking an AI written book as long as the cover says so, and the backlash that followed suggests most readers wanted something disclosure was never going to give them

Hachette pulled a horror novel from release after the New York Times accused its author of using AI to write it, and she never admitted to it, she only said an editor she’d worked with might have

Writers who reread their own old work and physically cringe aren’t bad judges of their own quality, they’re the only kind of writer who has actually gotten better

The Society of Authors just launched a label that goes on the back of a book jacket reading “Human Authored,” and it runs entirely on an honour code, which means the only thing standing between a reader and the truth is a writer’s word

New York’s legislature has passed a bill requiring both AI disclosure and human review of AI-assisted news — the first time a government has tried to legally define what a human editor’s presence requires

The platforms that built their early growth on being tools for writers and creators eventually became systems that extracted value from that writing and returned less of it over time — and the writers who noticed this earliest were the ones who got called paranoid

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Barnes and Noble’s chief executive said he has no problem stocking an AI written book as long as the cover says so, and the backlash that followed suggests most readers wanted something disclosure was never going to give them

Hachette pulled a horror novel from release after the New York Times accused its author of using AI to write it, and she never admitted to it, she only said an editor she’d worked with might have

Writers who reread their own old work and physically cringe aren’t bad judges of their own quality, they’re the only kind of writer who has actually gotten better

The Society of Authors just launched a label that goes on the back of a book jacket reading “Human Authored,” and it runs entirely on an honour code, which means the only thing standing between a reader and the truth is a writer’s word

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