We are up to our necks in a rising tide of AI-generated slop

A person who thinks a book can be ‘edited’ by a piece of software is a person who simply doesn’t know what editing is

Earlier this month the journal Scientific Reports published a peer-reviewed paper examining whether ordinary readers could distinguish between poetry produced by generative AI and poetry written by canonical figures such as Chaucer, Byron, Shakespeare, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot and Plath. Spines claims that it will publish 8,000 books in the coming year.

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