After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through its e-book program to tell the company in advance that their work includes artificial intelligence material.

The Authors Guild praised the new regulations, which were posted Wednesday, as a “welcome first step” toward deterring the proliferation of computer-generated books on the online retailer’s site. Many writers feared computer-generated books could crowd out traditional works and would be unfair to consumers who didn’t know they were buying AI content.

In a statement posted on its website, the Guild expressed gratitude toward “the Amazon team for taking our concerns into account and enacting this important step toward ensuring transparency and accountability for AI-generated content.”

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    1 year ago

    Good. Unless you’re using an AI you yourself cultivated using your own creations: you’re plagiarizing with extra steps.

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        Taking inspiration from something is different than creating a Frankensteins monster. AIs replicate, they do not create.

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      Overly simplistic outlook.

      If you provide the sources and direct the LLM to use those sources, and then proofread the damn thing and cite the sources, it flat out is not plagiarism.

      It’s as much plagiarism as using a calculator is to find square roots.