Authors dropped for AI-written books: scholar says transparency is the implicit reader contract
_akpiper · x · 2026-10-26
Speaking on Canadian TV about publishers dropping authors over AI-written books, akpiper argues transparency is key: authors have an implicit contract with readers, and silently using AI violates the assumption of full human authorship, inviting severe backlash.
He adds that different communities have different contracts — science values truth over creative expression and tolerates AI participation more, though debate persists — and that technology has always been part of art, as long as it stays foregrounded.
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