re: Nigerian novelist loses out on $2M deal due to suspicions over the use of AI...

2 years until the book is released? Why does it take so long? And who cares if Ai is used?

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refusing to read or listen to AI entertainment now is the equivalent of refusing to read a book written on a word processor instead of a typewriter in 1988.

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That isn’t even a good comparison at all.

The word processor doesn’t write the story for you.

Pretty much all of humanity can come up with a “general” outline of a story, like your long form AI prompts.

The difference is that a writer can expand that idea.

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refusing to read or listen to AI entertainment now is the equivalent of refusing to read a book written on a word processor instead of a typewriter in 1988.
That isn’t even a good comparison at all.

The word processor doesn’t write the story for you.

Pretty much all of humanity can come up with a “general” outline of a story, like your long form AI prompts.

The difference is that a writer can expand that idea.

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Sorry Scruffy, you're way off here. The creativity comes in writing the prompt and then editing/massaging the output. If you don't have the spark of creativity or the domain knowledge to start with, then you won't get good output. Garbage In, Garbage Out, just like any other computer tool.

AIs are NOT creative. They only know what they know. Their training datasets are so large though that humans have the illusion that they are being creative because the AI is pulling from sources you've never seen before, and combining sources as well.

To greatly oversimplify this, if you tell an AI "Write me a fiction book on X", it will do two things:

1. Search for internet sources on X
2. Use its mathematical relationships from its training dataset that may well have included a book on X, but NOT the actual book on X.

The output is then the mashup of what it found on X (and you can tell it not to search the internet too) plus the output of its equations related to X. Your first round of output is going to be hot garbage unless you put a lot of work into the prompt and know what you are doing.

Try it yourself sometime. See how much effort it takes to get AI to write a good short story, say 2k words.

This same book will appear on shelves in Europe in the coming years with a white person's name on it.

I don’t want to read an AI book, watch an AI movie, or listen to an AI song.

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You miss the point. The prompt is the human creation. It's the seed, without it, the AI can produce nothing.

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And what if AI is using prompts/content that it has collected from the internet (or other scanned databases) and that original human gets no credit?

I’m not exactly down for fricking over the original, human writer.

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It is not creating. And your prompt telling it to replicate is also not creating. You are simply telling it what you want it to replicate.

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This.

It isn’t creation. Even if you edit it over time, it is still a replication.

Class is at least in theory supposed to be about improving your writing skills rather than making money. Publishing a book on the other hand is just supposed to be about making money.

Still do.

If reading is your thing, not reading a great book because of AI is absurd...but whatever