Do you want to read books written by robots? Do you care? #chatGPT #amreading

As a science fiction writer, this article gave me chills:

Open AIs CEO. Funny… he doesn’t look like a Bond villain.

The rising deluge of chatbot-assisted stories is now so bad that it’s even forced a temporary submissions hiatus for one of the internet’s leading science-fiction magazines [Clarkesworld]… According to Reuters, Amazon’s e-book store includes at least 200 titles openly listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author. popsci

You might wonder, how would that work? Something like, upload a popular novel into the AI, prompt it to change names and setting, and see what it produces. Get more skilled at prompting the AI (which some folks will say is a creative act on its own,) do an edit run-through (or not if you’re in a hurry,) and… poof… a book to sell.

What do you, as a reader, think? Do you care who or what or some combination creates the book you read? Should you pay full price for an AI-assisted book? Should the book-seller be required to tell you if an AI was used? If you enjoy the book, do you care?

I promise you, every word of every one of my stories (including the good and the bad) is 100% human-created – click here. If that matters.