AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry Into Utter Chaos
The spectacular implosions of big deals over suspected AI use are forcing a reckoning over creativity, trust and the future of the industry.
Shortly after scoring a multimillion-dollar book deal for a debut author, the novelist’s agents pulled the plug. They could no longer support the project, they said, because they couldn’t verify that the book had been wholly written by their client.
“This raises so many questions about authorship and what AI means for this industry,” the agency, Europa Content, told the publishers in a July letter after allegations of AI use swirled around “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body,” a crime novel by Jerry Falade. “But those are questions for another day.”
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