How AI is Impacting Book Publishing Industry
I don’t think someone can take credit for publishing a book when AI wrote it for them:
ISBN issuances surge in 2025 as AI accelerates publishing, but fears mount over flood of low-quality titles
It took me about an hour to produce a 50-page-long children’s book. All it required was a handful of prompts to ChatGPT.
The task was simple: Write a children’s story about a journalist living in the age of artificial intelligence, set at The Korea Herald, with a main character named Jane.
Readers can decide for themselves if the result is convincing enough to pass as something written by a human.
But this experiment shows just how quickly a book can be made with AI, something South Korea’s publishing industry is trying to cope with, for better or worse.
You can read more at the link.
AI bots are not given prompts.
AI are given instructions and orders.
Calling them prompts is anthropomorphization.
Akin to claiming setnaffa is a sentient being.
But as Dr. McCoy diagnosed in the Case of setnaffa:
“It’s not life Jim and certainly not as we know it”.
“AI bots are not given prompts.
AI are given instructions and orders.”
Tell us more!
If that’s true, why do AI researchers consistently explain that LLMs receive text input which initiates a probabilistic chain of token prediction across a learned linguistic structure?
And why do they sensibly call that input a prompt?
I’ll be sure to inform the research community they’ve been using the wrong word this whole time.
“Calling them prompts is anthropomorphization.”
It’s the opposite. Instructions and orders imply cognition and behavioral obedience rather than a trigger which… promps… a pathway through the probability field of language.
Have you ever been right about anything?
hey Google instruction sets, non-binding constraints, prompt, anthropomorphization, absent from class, bone spur surgery, make a sentence