Artificial Intelligence in Publishing

 

The latest AI intrusion into publishing is a sci-fi/romance self-published on Amazon that went viral on tiktok and was recently picked up in a very big deal by Simon & Schuster. With its 60% positive rating on the AI detection software Pangram, it was almost certainly written with artificial intelligence. Though there is controversy about Pangram's false positive rate, an expert on AI-language detection not affiliated with the study stated that it’s “almost statistically impossible” for an entirely human-written book to register as sixty percent AI. If all the suspect sentences were redacted, it would look like the Epstein files: “They collapsed together, a tangle of sweat-slicked limbs and racing hearts.” It’s hard enough for new, traditionally published authors to break through the noise in today’s publishing landscape without having to compete with the thousands of novels written, at least in part, by artificial intelligence.” AI-generated ebooks, easily produceable at scale for self-publishing on Amazon, are cannibalizing the market for human-written texts. It's unfortunate we have to have this conversation. AI was rolled out too quickly with no regulation and it's running amuck in writing platforms and being used in schools, even at the elementary level when children are most susceptible to the lazy way out instead of exploring the creative imagination hard-wired into human beings.