As David Simon said: "I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level." Yeah, me neither.

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Stop charging authors for a solution to a made-up problem. Things are already expensive enough. Are we going to go through museums & slap "human-painted" stickers on everything, just so people know? Be serious.

The AI bubble is going to burst, and it's going to happen sooner rather than later. AI isn't even AI! It's Large Language Models! For fuck's sake, this stuff isn't intelligent! And it's probably never going to be!

What a wildly cynical assumption about the power & longevity of AI--thinking that this startup idea has any real legs, that we're going to get to a level where these certifications are necessary--instead of staring truth right in the eyeballs...

That's right: if your publisher commits to only backing books written by people, your book will get a little human-authored stamp on the cover, to distinguish your work from AI slop.

"'As with food and processed food, some people won't care,' Dennys said. "But a lot of people do care and we're catering to those people.'"

What the hell does this mean? Dennys is the founder of a UK-based startup called Books By People that certifies books as non-AI generated.

Not only does Dennys look like someone who would shame you for not eating organic, she also makes statements about wanting to "create an 'organic literature' market similar to organic food certification."