'The Afterlife of the AI Author':

http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/1/22/the-afterlife-of-the-ai-author.html

In 'The Death of the AI Author', Carys Craig and Ian Kerr endeavor to provide an ontological exploration of 'what an #author must be' by moving away from the figure of the romantic authorial self as rights-bearing legal subject. This figure, they argue, is a 'mythic' ideological construct that is also underpinned by legal and philosophical #liberalism. And, like liberalism, the #romantic author lies at the heart of both copyright doctrine and contemporary ideas of #AIauthorship too. According to Craig and Kerr, AI should not be 'treated as special-purpose #human beings' producing work-for-hire; nor should it be mischaracterized as a radically individualized creative entity capable of being the 'sole creator and master' of a text...

#art #genai #copyright #relationalOntologies #law #humanities #philosophy

🤔How does #AI influence perceptions of authorship and ownership?

💡We found an "AI ghostwriter effect" in our study in #TOCHI here: https://lnkd.in/dq_h_zUZ

with @fionadraxler, Anna Werner, @florianlehmann, Matthias Hoppe, Albrecht Schmidt, @robin_welsch

#CHI #HCI #IUI #AIAuthorship #ChatGPT

I won't name him here, but I recently got a #YouTube suggestion for someone who makes videos about "How to Make Money #Writing Books with #ChatGPT." The #YouTuber has a few actual books out, all of which are about marketing and not about "how to write #fiction."

Someone who tells you how to get rich, but who only got rich by telling people how to get rich is called a "Con Artist."

Someone who's never written a fiction novel, but tells you how to get rich by writing a fiction novel is also called a "Con Artist."

"AI can write books for you!" is one of the latest in a long line of #EasyMoney #GetRichQuickSchemes.

Also, #AI cannot hold a #copyright– nor can you to that #AIgenerated text, unless a #substantive portion of it is human-authored.

In other words, you still have to do the work.

#AI #AIAuthorship #AIAuthored #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #WritingCommunity #Scams #Scammers #WritersLife #ConArtist #HumanAuthorship #ConArtistry #ConArtists #Publishing #PublishingMyths

@vwang93

Good on you! We need more thinking on science and values.

I was thinking a lot about values while writing my recent analysis for the #SentientSyllabus Project:

Getting #AIauthorship right is harder than one would think.

https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/silicone-coauthors

Key takeaways include: that arguments based on our usual criteria of /contribution/ and /accountability/ are brittle; that the problem lies with authorship being a vague term (cf. sorites paradox); that we are using posterior reasoning to justify our intuitions; and that reliable intuitions about the actual nature of the emergent(!) source-AI-author system need more work. A practical policy proposal rounds it off: empower the authors, use meaningful acknowledgements, quantify contributions.

#ChatGPT #Authorship #Science

Getting #AIauthorship right is harder than one would think.

I just posted an analysis on AI authorship over at #SentientSyllabus:
https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/silicone-coauthors

Key takeaways include: that arguments based on our usual criteria of /contribution/ and /accountability/ are brittle; that the problem lies with authorship being a vague term (cf. sorites paradox); that we are using posterior reasoning to justify our intuitions; and that reliable intuitions about the actual nature of the emergent(!) source-AI-author system need more work. A practical policy proposal rounds it off: empower the authors, use meaningful acknowledgements, quantify contributions.

#ChatGPT #AI #Education #HigherEd #University #Academia