L. E. Sterling

Tag: AI training

  • Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts

    New Study Underscores the Existential Impact of AI on the Book World Hard to believe, but AI models capable of producing novels (from stolen works of literature) have only been around for a scant few months—not even an eyelash blink, really, in the timeline of human endeavours.  And yet, their application is already so widespread…

  • AI Slop Hawkers are Creating an Existential Crisis for Publishing

    Without better gatekeeping on AI, publishing threatens to collapse A few months ago, I went to buy Callie Hart’s breakout novel, Quicksilver, on Kobo. I couldn’t find it. What I did find, however, was Quicksilver, published by a dude named *Kevin, sporting Callie Hart’s cover. Oh, Hart’s name was still present…buried somewhere in the description. But it was…