4 papers
Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu, Jane C. Ginsburg +1
Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry…
From Planning to Revision: How AI Writing Support at Different Stages Alters Ownership
Katy Ilonka Gero, Tao Long, Carly Schnitzler +1
Although AI assistance can improve writing quality, it can also decrease feelings of ownership. Ownership in writing has important implications for attribution, rights, norms, and…
Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Jane C. Ginsburg, Paramveer Dhillon
The use of copyrighted books for training AI has sparked lawsuits from authors concerned about AI generating derivative content. Yet whether these models can produce high-quality l…
Can Good Writing Be Generative? Expert-Level AI Writing Emerges through Fine-Tuning on High-Quality Books
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Paramveer S. Dhillon
Creative writing has long been considered a uniquely human endeavor, requiring voice and style that machines could not replicate. This assumption is challenged by Generative AI tha…