The Authors Guild in the United States said online marketplaces were becoming inundated with entirely AI-generated books that looked and read as if they were written by humans.<\/p>\n
Tauranga Libraries manager Joanna Thomas said there were many tell-tale signs a book may have been written by AI.<\/p>\n
These included \u201cauthor names that do not appear elsewhere or seem auto-generated\u201d and \u201cauthors that produce multiple books in a short time\u201d.<\/p>\n
Other factors included \u201clow quality production, content that is repetitive and lacks depth or coherence, and overly generic titles\u201d.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Dunedin Public Libraries said AI-generated work had been easy to identify but was becoming harder to spot as technology evolved.<\/p>\n
\u201cClues to an AI-generated item can include the overall quality of the item and whether it is an AI-generated summary of an original non-fiction work,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAuthors who publish a lot of work at once, or in very quick succession, which can indicate possible AI assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, the US Authors Guild launched a Human-Authored Initiative to certify that books were written by humans, with AI only being used for spell-checking and research.<\/p>\n
Guild chief executive Mary Rasenberger said the initiative wasn\u2019t about rejecting technology, but allowing readers to enjoy the \u201cuniquely human elements of storytelling\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said the certification system \u201cconnotes that the literary expression itself, with the unique human voice that every author brings to their writing, emanated from the human intellect\u201d.<\/p>\n
Michael Sergel is Newstalk ZB\u2019s business reporter, covering the daily life of business and the business of daily life. He\u2019s been covering business, politics, local government and consumer affairs for more than a decade.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Authors Guild in the United States said online marketplaces were becoming inundated with entirely AI-generated books that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[691,3061,3601,13978,1022,39438,119406,5347,40474,171,52596,1075,119404,119405,3861,6359,22682,3062,13708,22884,119401,64322,447,67,132,68,119402,34432,1917,119403],"class_list":{"0":"post-218838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial","10":"tag-author","11":"tag-book","12":"tag-books","13":"tag-bookstores","14":"tag-bots","15":"tag-by","16":"tag-continue","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-experts","19":"tag-from","20":"tag-grapple","21":"tag-handle","22":"tag-how","23":"tag-human","24":"tag-humans","25":"tag-intelligence","26":"tag-libraries","27":"tag-still","28":"tag-tell","29":"tag-there","30":"tag-to","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-wasnt","35":"tag-ways","36":"tag-with","37":"tag-written"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115187110761083570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}