From low-quality computer-written books flooding the market to potential copyright violations, publishing is the latest industry to feel the threat from rapid developments in artificial intelligence.
They are asking "what happens to authors' intellectual property? Who does new content actually belong to? How do we bring this into value chains?" he said. "And what came out was pure garbage," said the "Midnight's Children" writer, to laughter from the audience. Industry players stress however that in some areas there is more openness to dealing with artificial intelligence.
These areas were "easier than the field of fiction, where I think at the moment people still tend to look a bit more at the risks", she added. Along with the Authors Guild, an organisation representing writers, they accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models", algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit.