Laser light can distinguish between legally and illegally acquired ivory. Whether books have been written by humans or machines, however, is increasingly hard to establish owing to the prevalence of AI.
Which is why America’s largest professional writing organisation wants to highlight “human intelligence”. Once the human-authored works have been registered through an online portal, a certificate can be downloaded.
It can be used on book covers or publicity material. Planned expansion will see the programme become available to non-members.
In January, the US Copyright Office published its report on how copyright laws will be applied for books written using AI.
Authors can already influence how AI systems use their books. Old smells are getting a long overdue reprint too.
