Unsurprisingly, the goal is to feed their work straight into the maw of AI models to boost the quality of their output, a depressing new reality for those trying to make a career in writing.
"The first company advantage in this space is incredibly big," Dan Brown, a professor at the University of Waterloo, told. "If there are countries and languages for which companies are failing and somebody can come in and snap those spaces up, it’s an opportunity for them to wrap up the market before any new players can come in.
But whether paying fiction writers to feed AI models with prose will boost these algorithms' creative sides remains unclear at best. "They are trained to reproduce," Fabricio Goes, informatics lecturer at the University of Leicester, toldSo why are they hiring creatives at all? Some experts argue it may be a way to own the full rights to creative writing instead of making themselves vulnerable to infringing copyright — something that has already resulted in a