Hundreds of books created with the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT flooded Amazon, demonstrating how the technology could be used to produce books at scale.
The online bookseller’s website lists about 300 titles that are said to have been written exclusively by or in collaboration with ChatGPT in a variety of genres, including non-fiction, fantasy, and self-help.
Many books appear to have been published using the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing tool, which allows users to quickly create, publish, and promote their work using the modern equivalent of the self-publishing model.
It is likely that over 300 or so books written by ChatGPT were written using a generative artificial intelligence tool that uses a large language model. [LLM] to mimic the spelling of people, but don’t use this tool.
An Amazon spokesperson said: “All books in the store must comply with our content policies, including compliance with intellectual property rights and all other applicable laws.”
ChatGPT was released in November 2022 by San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company OpenAI. Investment bank UBS estimates that 13 million people use the tool every day. It works by prompting the reader to ask questions or set tasks, which are entered into a chat window and then answered in natural language.
People have previously used ChatGPT and other generative AI tools that create images instead of text to create children’s books. Ammaar Reshi, a 28-year-old American techie, self-published a book on Amazon called Alice and Sparkle, created entirely with tools like ChatGPT based on its hints. Reshi did not name the technology as his co-authors when the book was published.
Reshi sold about 70 copies. Alice and Sparkle Sold for the first 10 days.
AI-generated text is becoming a major challenge for both publishers and retailers. American science fiction magazine Clarksworld blocked the submission of new stories after being inundated with AI-generated text. The magazine’s founding editor, Neil Clark, has decided to forgo the ability to submit new work after receiving 50 submissions he says were generated by artificial intelligence in a single day.
Clark denounced the poor quality of work produced by AI, something that other writers believe will continue to separate work created by humans from work produced by computers and AI tools.
“I think bad writing that hedges its bets and tries to fool the reader with high-end generalizations—whether written by a machine or a person—is still bad,” says Carl Whitney, author of two books on nuns and editor. in Penguin Classic.
Earlier this month Decide, author Alice and Sparkleasked Bing, an artificial intelligence search engine developed by Microsoft. what does he think of his work. The AI behind the search engine said: “I think it will be more of a novelty than a literary masterpiece.
AI continued, “An AI-generated book may be technically impressive, but it won’t have the soul or depth of a book created by a human author.”
Whitney said that the continued submission of low-quality AI work could eventually lead publishers to raise the drawbridge for new submissions in the same way. Clarksworld did and ultimately blocked the way for new authors into the publishing world.
“Dirt [where unsolicited manuscripts end up] is an extremely convenient way for unknown authors to get published and noticed,” Whitney said.
“As with all the changes that generative creative AI will bring, I think one of the big changes will be even more recognition of human craftsmanship,” the doctor said. Katherine Flick is lecturer in computer science and social responsibility at De Montfort University in Leicester. Flick explores the rise of AI and how we use it.
“Ultimately, I suspect the crappy books will join other existing crappy books that are currently being written by ghosts, but due to the lack of work required to create an AI-written book for publication, this will yield even more,” Flick added. . “Unfortunately, this stifles high-quality books that should be self-published.”
Flick can envision a future in which AI tools will help authors write their books faster, though they struggle with the nuances required to produce a well-written story or book series.
“I see a lot of pressure to advertise that the book is being written by people, with the potential reward that comes with that,” she said. “At this point, it’s hard to tell if this is a good change, although I’m sure the first known author will admit to using LLM to be exposed on social media as a hoax or a scam.”
Tom Rowley of Backstory, a London bookseller, said of whether they will be sold in bookstores: “Not in a million years. I’d rather keep Jeff Bezos’ memoirs.”
Source: I News
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