Novelists are worried that artificial intelligence (AI) could take their jobs, according to a report.<\/p>\n
It found that about half of them said AI could “entirely replace” their work.<\/p>\n
Dr Clementine Collett, of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy (MCTD) at the University of Cambridge, surveyed 332 authors for the report.<\/p>\n
“There is widespread concern from novelists that generative AI trained on vast amounts of fiction will undermine the value of writing and compete with human novelists,” she said.<\/p>\n
The report found that 97% of novelists were “extremely negative” about the notion of AI writing complete novels.<\/p>\n
About 40% said AI had already hit the income they received from other work they did to support their novel-writing.<\/p>\n
Dr Collett, who published the document in partnership with the Institute for the Future of Work, said: “Many novelists felt uncertain there will be an appetite for complex, long-form writing in years to come.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, many authors said they had found books that falsely claimed to have been written by them, and about 60% of those who took part in the study said their work had been used to train AI large language models without their permission or payment.<\/p>\n
“Copyright law must continue to be reviewed and might need reform to further protect creatives,” Dr Collett said.<\/p>\n
“It is only fair that writers are asked permission and paid for use of their work.”<\/p>\n
In the report, four in every five respondents agreed that AI offered benefits to society.<\/p>\n
However, they called for fair use of their work alongside support from the government.<\/p>\n
Prof Gina Neff, executive director of the MCTD, said: “Our creative industries are not expendable collateral damage in the race to develop AI. They are national treasures worth defending.”<\/p>\n
A Department for Science, Innovation and Technology spokesperson said: “We’ve always been clear on the need to work with both the creative industries and the AI sector to drive AI innovation and ensure robust protections for creators.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novelists are worried that artificial intelligence (AI) could take their jobs, according to a report. It found that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-149732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}