The End of Publishing as We Know It
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Book publishers, especially those of nonfiction and textbooks, also told me they anticipate a massive decrease in sales, as chatbots can both summarize their books and give detailed explanations of their contents. Publishers have tried to fight back, but my conversations revealed how much the deck is stacked against them. . . The institutions that comprise our country’s free press are fighting for their survival.
Publishers have been responding in two ways. First: legal action. At least 12 lawsuits involving more than 20 publishers have been filed against AI companies. Their outcomes are far from certain, and the cases might be decided only after irreparable damage has been done.
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I cannot see myself intentionally reading an AI-produced summary of a book, nonfiction or otherwise. But what if AI crafted the rewrite to be more entertaining than the original?
P.S. Apologies if I put this in the wrong area of Mobileread. The topic might be seen as slightly political, but I do not perceive a left-right divide.