- Employees at a small publication say AI-powered tools are making their jobs harder.
- A magazine editor told CNN his team struggled to review the huge volume of articles generated by AI.
- Neil Clarke said the publication had to temporarily shut down its submission form.
It makes me wonder though at what point an “author” will reveal that a published, reviewed work was written completely by AI.
George R.R. Martin Says That The Winds of Winter is 75 Percent Complete
By this point, my will to read it is 75% depleted.
You can already find plenty of self published work on ebook stores that are definitely not written by AI. I expect it won’t be long before there’s a scandal where a well known author is able to push through a mostly AI written book on the strength of their name.
A completely AI written work going through the traditional publishing process seems unlikely, at least for a while. LLMs are great at producing coherent language, but there’s a lot more to writing a story. AI research follows cycles where new techniques produce eye opening achievements, followed by lulls as their limitations are better understood. We’re due for another lull, for better or worse.