Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
“they all had the same classic signs of AI writing, like ‘not this, but that’ and the rule of three”
What happened
Workers at three of the five biggest US book publishers told WIRED their employers are quietly using chatbots to write back-cover copy, publicity material and emails to literary agents, while the same publishers sue over AI and cancel books by authors suspected of using it. Literary agents say they compared rejection letters from the same editors and found the same chatbot habits in each one.