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I guess that means any self respecting author would need to have it in all their submissions and contracts that no AI may be used on their works. Or in context with their work. If dealing with these publishing houses. And I guess any publishing houses by extension.

Ok, they're on my list to not buy from. If I book I want is published by them I'll buy it used.

I can't help but notice it's always execs and administrators pushing for AI use, and almost never the people who do the actual work

No better time to go independent. The publishing industry is changing again, but honest creatives know how to adapt. Especially in the age when you're gonna do most of your own marketing anyhoo, have less than 1% getting off a slush pile, & now the ability to sell direct or through other avenues.

Not surprised. Greed overruns everything. It’s also twisted logic that it’s okay if staff, copy writers, artists and graphic designers are put out of work by AI, as long as the author doesn’t touch it.

Book publishing is famous for "trust fund baby" low salaries, even tho their employees are no longer rich kids, & for being incredibly low/slow to tech, like didn't computerize accounting till the late 90's slow. To buy LLMs, insist their mostly non-techie, low paid workers use them, is a mess.

Revolting? Two-faced.

As someone whose career depends on publishers NOT doing a heel turn into ai, this is such a gut punch 💔

your occasional reminder that publishers aren’t creators and in fact mostly serve to crush the creative spirit in their creators under the weight of their intellectual bankruptcy in pursuit of material wealth

this is great

Don't approve of publishers using AI like this but when it comes to back cover copy I'm not sure we'll notice the difference. Long before AI, one of my books, published by part of Hachette, had BCC saying I'd written about motoring "for every major publication". Nobody can ever have done that.

"Underpants...?...profit!"

no it isn't

Ewwwwwwwww!!!!

You guys used "quietly" in your headline ironically, right?

what a fucking farce

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If they are using it to write rejection letters, are they also feeding prospective manuscripts into it to be analysed? Which is a huge breach of trust.

A visit to any bookstore could have already told us this. They're all looking far more samey than ever before. And this is even after at least a couple of decades of trying to emulate previous successes.

This is my surprised face: 😑

Cool, cool cool cool… yeah I don’t need a paycheck or anything I’ll just have Siri pay my rent 🫩

"Voluntold" - fucking hell.

Completely unsurprised by this having worked in the publishing business for 20 years... Most corporate publishers are driven by profit over the interests of authors and readers. It's cheaper to churn out slop so you will see more of this.

Cool. I'll just buy books published before 2010 then

nothing like being told to 'champion' the thing that might replace you lol