AI-written books will be sold on Amazon, and people will buy them. Specialty services will write books on demand based on customer specifications. At least one group, and probably several, will make real money in erotica this way. The market for hand-written mass market fiction, especially low-status stuff like genre fiction and thrillers, will contract radically.
...academia will suffer even more from the influx of papers which were not written by their official authors. The job of the scientific editor will become that much harder.
By this point, academia may have begun shifting away from papers as a unit of information transmission, and away from manual editing. Some combination of NLP and standardized ontologies may replace them, a shift which is already underway.
AI-written books will be sold on Amazon, and people will buy them. Specialty services will write books on demand based on customer specifications. At least one group, and probably several, will make real money in erotica this way. The market for hand-written mass market fiction, especially low-status stuff like genre fiction and thrillers, will contract radically.
...academia will suffer even more from the influx of papers which were not written by their official authors. The job of the scientific editor will become that much harder.
By this point, academia may have begun shifting away from papers as a unit of information transmission, and away from manual editing. Some combination of NLP and standardized ontologies may replace them, a shift which is already underway.