About a year ago, I joined an online forum of writers and editors and read the posts of a 19-year-old writer who stated that she had published 23 novels in one year. Astonished, I enquired further about that author and discovered thereby how late I was to the AI party.
At that time, I had just concluded my years-long background research for my third book, Resurrecting Judas, and was just getting ready to start writing the actual book. The idea that people were inserting a short paragraph into a text box to generate a full, automated chapter and to create “bestsellers” appeared so alien to me, as a steadfast and assiduous writer. I thought, goodness, how can we real writers compete with these AI authors?
It was heartening to read The Authors Guild’s comprehensive article titled “*AI Best Practices for Authors*”, which highlights how authors are to disclose publicly whether they wrote their book(s) using their innate human intellect and imagination, or whether they were aided by artificial intelligence. The article further states that books that were auto-generated are not copyrightable and are thus not protected under intellectual property laws.
Considering the total ecosystem of dedicated writers, editors, proofreaders, graphic designers, literary agents, promoters, marketing agents, publishers, as well as readers, this requirement to disclose AI content appears, to this author, to be poetic justice.