no, the book publishers using more AI is revolting

it's industry. its natural for industry to optimise its production technology to increase efficiency. let's not pretend it has anything to do with art.

This would be funny if it wasn't so sad:

At HarperCollins senior leaders purchased Claude licenses from Anthropic months ago “but very quickly realized they didn’t know how to implement them,” according to a current employee. Dozens of junior- and senior-level staff were then “voluntold” to become “AI Champions” and were tasked with discovering use cases in monthly brainstorming sessions with staff across the company.

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Some staffers across the Big Five say they’re reluctantly experimenting with LLMs only because executives gutted their teams through layoffs and subsequently tripled their workloads.

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“The C-suites at Big Five publishing companies have more in common with the C-suites at other major American companies than they do with the editors and publicists and translators who work for them,” says Dan Sinykin, author of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. “They’re always looking for ways to maximize profit, and right now they’re trying to see what they can get away with before there’s a revolt.”

it's called accelerationism and its goal is to simply wreck shit up. yeah - this shit fucking sucks no elaboration necessary - but come on, we aint suicide watch to help all these corporation not to tear themselves apart with the power of capitalism and AI. they want it - let them have it and then some.