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"Who’s to know? [Technology firms] are spending trillions and trillions on AI and maybe it’s going to produce the next War and Peace.
"And if people want to read that book, AI-generated or not, we will be selling it - as long as it doesn’t pretend to [be] something that it isn’t.
“We as booksellers would certainly naturally and instinctively disdain it,” Daunt said.
Readers value a connection with the author “that does require a real person”, he added. Any AI-generated book would always be clearly labelled as such.
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“written”
Who is this for?
Who is what for? This article? AI books?
AI books.
Bold of him to imagine that there’s a market for the literary equivalent of pink slime
Not really, all he’s saying is that if the market exists, his business will provide for it. He doesn’t personally think there’s a market for AI.
Authenticity in art is antithetical to business, a tale as old as authenticity, art, and business.
