I care.

There is a usually a huge gap in writing quality between an author who writes about someone elses experiences, and someone writing about their own experiences.

Why do people believe a silicon intelligence can write well about the human experience without a meatbag of its own?

AI doesn’t create or write or paint or film anything. It uses stuff that is made by humans and mashes it together based on a prompt.

An AI can’t author anything.

When I read or indulge in any artform I’m not just mindlessly consuming crap, I’m thinking about the intention behind such creations and that is what makes it special.

An AI does not have any intention in its actions it’s just a tool used to steal.

This is absolutely a question being asked by a marketing firm, or a consultancy group. Look at all of the follow up questions being asked in the replies:

if books by humans cost 5-10x more than books written by AI in conjunction with humans, would you still buy the human books?
Would it make you pickier when you choose books?
Which genres do you find human authorship matters the most to you as a reader?
To what lengths would you go to find high-quality writing by a human?
Has the influx of AI writing changed the way you read or find books in any way?
Would you manage this situation by generally being more wary of books post-2022?
Is there a way you hope human authors will truly certify to their readership the human authenticity of their work?

It’s just some company trying to figure out if they can justify publishing AI-regurgitated shite in the future.

I wonder: how will we know that a book that we find in a bookstore was written by humans or by AI? Sure, for now we can read the first paragraph and figure it out, but in the future these AIs might get pretty good…

Wouldn’t care in the slightest. A good story is a good story, regardless of whether it’s composed by carbon or silicon.

There are so many real books in existence. More than any 100 humans could ever read in their lifetimes. What would possess you to read some statistical average of actual books?

I think that if AI became genuinely as good as a human writer at creating original interesting stories, we would probably be dealing with such a deep intelligence that it could be argued that it deserves being treated as a human rather than a machine. It all depends on what you consider being human means.

Idk if this will ever be possible. For now, AI is at most a glorified parrot, and I’m probably downplaying parrots here. It’s really hyped up because there’s a ton of people salivating while thinking how to make a quick buck with even more automation.

This is completely a non-issue if you don’t read trashy genre fiction that’s so formulaic a Markov chain could come up with it

This post and all of the OP responses feel like an AI is trying to run a focus group here lol

Out of curiosity, I would like to read a bit of one of these books. Do you/anyone have any examples I could look into?

I don’t read books to connect with humans. If I wanted to do that, I’d talk to humans. The people who think they do that just by reading books are deluding themselves. At best, they connect with some imaginary ideal they have of someone. As if reading Asoiaf gives the average reader serious insight into Martin. It might for people who know about his life in detail and can draw connections from his story to his life, but not the average reader.

If an AI can write stories better than a human, then I’m all for it. The nonsensical ethics of “stealing” from human writers (as if human writers are suddenly losing a possession) to train AI is ridiculous. A human being able to use the words they “stole” more creatively or emotionally wouldn’t magically make it not stealing if it were actually were stealing.

If an AI were straightforwardly copy-pasting sentences word for word from human authors, there might be an argument there, but they don’t do that. Otherwise, you might as well claim that every human author who was inspired to write a magical school story by Harry Potter stole from JK Rowling.

Anyway, if or when AI can produce books better than human authors, I’m all for it. Fiction is for entertainment. If you want to learn about other people, read biographies.

I would care bc i would read them differently. Al is a reflection of ourselves which is itself extremely interesting. A book written by a person is their internal attempt to project themselves or their ideas however imperfectly.

ye I care. I hate ai created art, especially with a book.

I don’t think AI can write books like Dostoevsky,Terry Pratchett,Douglas Adams,etc.

Fuck AI.