Bookmachine time again! This week, I’m discussing the possibility that robots might soon be writing our books and the effects that could have on the Publishing industry. As ever, if you want to continue reading, head over to the Bookmachine blog.
We need to talk about AIs, algorithms and Rights. Over the next decade or two these issues are only going to become more prominent and will likely become major concerns for the Publishing industry.
AI authors – fact, not fiction!
On Thursday, Publishing Perspectives posted an article on possibility that AIs will soon writing our books for us.
This is not as far out as it first sounds. Major and minor news outlets across the web are already using AI-authored stories on their websites. These AIs are capable of compiling articles from raw data and, for the most part, they are indistinguishable from those written by humans. While these stories are still cleared by human editors and have certain flaws, such as not being able to include quotes, they can produce stories almost instantaneously, and in multiple languages. What’s more, they can create thousands of news stories in the time it takes a human journalist to produce only one.
Needless to say our friends in Silicon Valley are already working on the next generation of these AIs: ones which can write fiction novels. I scoffed a few years ago when I heard they were going to write news stories, I’m not fool enough to scoff again… [READ MORE]