“we take active measures to exclude all AI generated books from our online catalogue and never knowingly order any for stocking in our stores; we demand that publishers label any books that are AI generated.”
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I recently received official promotional emails from Barnes & Noble promoting books by white supremacist child predators and murderers. B&N’s support of AI (and half-hearted backpedaling) is just stacking more 💩 on a pile of 💩.
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I’d like to clarify my position of never buying anything from B&N. Have waterstones or any other bookstores promised not to carry AI?
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>In his earlier interview with Jenna Bush Hager, Daunt said he has “no problem selling any book, as long as it doesn’t masquerade or pretend to be something that it isn’t. So, as long as an AI-written book says it’s an AI-written book, then we will stock them.”
No one who reads wants a book written by glorified predictive text. But they’ll probably try to shove AI books down our throats like they’re doing with everything else anyway.
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Part of his statement:
“we take active measures to exclude all AI generated books from our online catalogue and never knowingly order any for stocking in our stores; we demand that publishers label any books that are AI generated.”
I recently received official promotional emails from Barnes & Noble promoting books by white supremacist child predators and murderers. B&N’s support of AI (and half-hearted backpedaling) is just stacking more 💩 on a pile of 💩.
I’d like to clarify my position of never buying anything from B&N. Have waterstones or any other bookstores promised not to carry AI?
>In his earlier interview with Jenna Bush Hager, Daunt said he has “no problem selling any book, as long as it doesn’t masquerade or pretend to be something that it isn’t. So, as long as an AI-written book says it’s an AI-written book, then we will stock them.”
No one who reads wants a book written by glorified predictive text. But they’ll probably try to shove AI books down our throats like they’re doing with everything else anyway.