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Publishing grapples with where to draw the line on AI
Useful as a tool for research, generative AI is also posing a threat to authors with a model that’s ‘good at creative writing’ in the works
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Serious publishers and agents take a hard line against the use of AI to write whole books – but some are experimenting.
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Since columnist Parmy Olson won 2024’s Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award with Supremacy, about tech companies’ battle for control of artificial intelligence (AI), she has started using large language models (LLMs) more frequently in her own research.
“(They) can be a helpful tool for bouncing ideas around, (exploring) angles and getting historic references to make comparisons,” she says.
