Minotaur/Macmillan has pulled the unpublished crime novel Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body after a reported $2.4 million deal collapsed over unproven suspicions the manuscript was written with AI assistance.
I'm one of those who will never buy a book written by AI, but I don't give a crap if AI was used for research, or as a tool to collate ideas, or as a translation aid; I'll happily read those. I think we may need to establish categories of AI use so that buyers can get what they want; otherwise things like this will keep happening, and consumers won't know where to stand their ground.
The next great Epic isn't likely to come from a single prompt on ChatGPT. That's what people are missing about this AI vs. Creatives argument. Unless something is synthetic from ideation to publishing there's something human guiding things. I don't think that's a bad thing.
Granted, 1,000 Monkeys working at the speed of light on a 10T parameters (Claude Mythos level) LLM might be able to come up with something... but only with the right prompt.
I already know people who can't get jobs because they have no AI fluency so these creatives - games, writing, art, music, and so on - had better stop avoiding learning how to use AI in their work. It is like a point of pride they are AI illiterate.
Maybe Castilla House could be the nameplate (not publisher) that creates a home for great, original stories. Crafted with AI or not. Hell, Vox Day already has Byron crowdfunding.
AI will never be creative enough to (insert craft here).
But it doesn't have to be.
All someone has to do is bray
"This was made with AI I sa y,"
And the deal dies on the floor.
Mainstream publishing is killing itself like the other mainstream industries. Moral Panic (woke pussies) is just another nail in the coffin.
I'm one of those who will never buy a book written by AI, but I don't give a crap if AI was used for research, or as a tool to collate ideas, or as a translation aid; I'll happily read those. I think we may need to establish categories of AI use so that buyers can get what they want; otherwise things like this will keep happening, and consumers won't know where to stand their ground.
The next great Epic isn't likely to come from a single prompt on ChatGPT. That's what people are missing about this AI vs. Creatives argument. Unless something is synthetic from ideation to publishing there's something human guiding things. I don't think that's a bad thing.
Granted, 1,000 Monkeys working at the speed of light on a 10T parameters (Claude Mythos level) LLM might be able to come up with something... but only with the right prompt.
I already know people who can't get jobs because they have no AI fluency so these creatives - games, writing, art, music, and so on - had better stop avoiding learning how to use AI in their work. It is like a point of pride they are AI illiterate.
Maybe Castilla House could be the nameplate (not publisher) that creates a home for great, original stories. Crafted with AI or not. Hell, Vox Day already has Byron crowdfunding.
More power to us humble self-published authors then. Whatever my faults, I am unlikely to nix my own manuscript due to suspicions that I used AI.