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AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing
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Steven Rosenbaum has decided that the real villain behind the bogus quotes in his book is a chatbot.
Key facts
- On Tuesday, allegations mounted that the Trinidadian author Jamir Nazir had used AI to write “ The Serpent in the Grove,” which won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
- In Defector, Patrick Redford derided the “pathetic behavior” of writers who use AI
- Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed book about how AI shapes reality, contains more than half a dozen fake or misattributed quotes
- It registered the writing as 100 percent AI-generated
Summary
Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed book about how AI shapes reality, contains more than half a dozen fake or misattributed quotes. Rosenbaum, a media entrepreneur and the executive director of the Sustainable Media Center, said he came to rely on AI tools as both a resource and a conversation partner while he worked on the book (which he also notes in the book’s acknowledgements). It’s been a rough week for human authorship all around. On Tuesday, allegations mounted that the Trinidadian author Jamir Nazir had used AI to write “ The Serpent in the Grove,” which won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Since ChatGPT arrived, automated writing has become ubiquitous: A recent working paper estimated that more than half of all new books released on Amazon now contain AI-generated text.
One response has been to call for a redoubling of efforts to root out AI writing and reinforce the stigma against it. In Defector, Patrick Redford derided the “pathetic behavior” of writers who use AI.