Waterstones venderebbe libri scritti da AI, dice il capo della catena

> Waterstones would stock books created using artificial intelligence, the company’s boss has said, as long as they were clearly labelled, and if customers wanted them.

Clearly labelled huh

Is there any kind of regulation that enforces a disclaimer on the book + advertising that the book is AI written?

While I’m not opposed to AI being used as a tool, I feel it prudent to know if the material I am extracting information from is written by a human or an algorithm.

Yeah, no. Never buying from Waterstones ever again the day they start selling AI books.

Why buy a book written by AI when a customer equally could just get an AI to write the book for them, and read it from that?

Big messaging issue here with Waterstones, they realistically should be pushing that AI can’t replicate the human touch in writing to preserve their overall image.

I read the recent Richard Osman book and to be honest it felt like it was already written by AI

“Winds of Winter – Massive Launch – Out in time for Xmas Stocking Filler! Hurray Before They Sell Out!”

You know, I can see the business appeal here…

realistically the bubble will burst and reform where WE dont need to buy the ai books instead we can prompt and read our own.

yes you can try and sell it but the market should match the effort and be for pennies if anything.

then real writers would be existing just as much because the novelty of real will hold true.

Books have always been a closed shop for the most part, fighting to get published. So if you want to fight back dont go against the retailer go against the publisher

I think businesses need to be careful with AI in creative spaces, I can see this backfiring badly. This could kill industries, that intrinsically rely on people’s appreciation of human creativity.

AI would be far better at replacing book recommendations by drawing on the vast data provided by e.g. Goodreads and Amazon to find comp & overlapping titles & therefore provide a better purchase experience than Waterstones. It can’t be truly creative (even if it can mimic established patterns reasonably well) but it can spot trends in data.

In some ways AI is both problem and solution. It creates a glut of content that makes it very difficult for humans to stand out among millions of new books each month.. but also has the ability to sift through that mountain in a way no human ever could. I’d rather skip tit all entirely, save the electricity, not have a fluffed-up AI stock market, etc. but alas that horse has well and truly bolted.

What a misleading headline:

“Waterstones would stock books created using artificial intelligence, the company’s boss has said, as long as they were clearly labelled, and if customers wanted them.
However, James Daunt, a veteran of the bookselling industry, said he personally did not expect that to happen.
“There’s a huge proliferation of AI-generated content and most of it are not books that we should be selling,” he said, but added it would be “up to the reader”.”

Why wouldn’t you just use AI to write your own books at home?

What a misrepresentation of what he said. I listened to the interview and all he said what that people prefer real authors and they would ID AI books as AI drafted. If I were him I’m be Trumping the BBC at the mo.

I feel that Britain needs to develop its own AI or this situation where a lot of our consumer spending goes to America is going to get much worse, as AI takes over every industry. Like how Amazon is effectively stealing much of the UKs consumer tax revenue and siphoning it to America or every coffee bought in starbucks sends money out of our economy

I’m hoping what will happen is readers will shun them, we may have a scary few years where authors are worried about their jobs but then things will reset, kind of like what happened with bookshops at the advent of the e-reader, but in the end it turns out customers wanted both physical and electronic.