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Human Authored is the New Organic
Authors Guild to offer Tags for Human Authors to Compete with AI
It’s a sign of the times. Marketplace — Daily business news and economic stories from Marketplace reports that The Authors Guild, the professional association representing published novelists and nonfiction writers, will offer its 15,000 members a new certificate they can place directly on their book covers. Authors concerned about the market being flooded with written material that is AI generated believe it is important to distinguish human writing as opposed to to those taking a shortcut.
Douglas Preston, a bestselling novelist and nonfiction writer and member of the Authors Guild Council speaking on the subject suggests it not just about addressing fraud and deception — he stresses “It’s also a declaration of how important storytelling is to who we are as a species. And we’re not going to let machines elbow us aside and pretend to be telling us stories, when it’s just regurgitating literary vomitus.”
NEW BOOKS EVERY YEAR
Every year somewhere between half a million to a million new titles come out in the U.S. alone. The market for reading customers is quite saturated and there are likely to be more AI material rushed out into the world.
