UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI
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One person gives an AI a brief prompt, the AI writes a whole novel, person publishes it without even reading it first
Another person spends weeks tinkering with prompts, producing dozens of outputs for the same prompt and deciding which to keep and which to cut, editing numerous AI outputs together - that’s still partially AI-generated, but with vastly more human input than the first case
A third person does all the writing themselves, but uses an AI for review, copyediting, as a source of ideas or suggestions, as a brainstorming partner… maybe the AI suggested a few turns of phrase here and there, or gave them some story ideas
Where do you draw the line?
I'd rather read things with typos and bad grammar than read something copyedited by AI.
Take the Google Docs suggestion as a sign that you shouldn't be writing that sentence at all. Back off, and find a way to tell the story in a way that every sentence provides something new, exciting, and unpredictable.
If the suggestion is better than what you were going to write, take it as a sign that you're not ready to publish. Treat it as a lesson in how to write better, then start over when you're more skilled at the craft.
Much the same applies to all LLM writing. If it can write it, it probably shouldn't be written at all. If an LLM is writing your boilerplate code, it means that there's too much boilerplate in your system. Solve that not by letting somebody else write it, but by rebuilding the system so that it doesn't require boilerplate.
I agree with you. I remember a recent discussion where someone "cleaned" the comment of other user using AI, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201796 the cleaned version was soulless or as the comment says wooden.
EDIT: From a recent comment by myself:
> People here is friendlier when the author is in the comment section replaying questions.
This time I notice the error on my own, but I made similar silly mistakes in the past. Google Docs may show a line with a suggestion to fix it.
But unfortunately I think that's unlikely. Most authors will likely never hear about this. I assume there will be some kind of fee to participate, but this will discourage people from using it. And even if it takes off, the fake book authors will just slap it on anyway as I'm not sure what enforcement mechanism would be effective.