« Our image to us is that we have sufficient natural intelligence authors so that they do not need to be relayed by artificial intelligence “, He said, as AFP reports. However, today’s truth is not that of tomorrow, seems to imply the vice-president of the first editorial group in France, owned by Vincent Bolloré since 2023: “ It is true that we will see, more and more, works that will be created like that, by machines. »
Hachette’s current policy in the matter – ” We have now guaranteed that this AI was not in the creations themselves ” – is therefore not engraved in marble:” We will see what we will do at that time, of course. »
As for the possibility of seeing the machines replace humans in the literary field, Arnaud Lagardère is more optimistic than alarmist: ” I have no fear that living authors, living natural persons will be able to do well. »
The future is already there
The vice-president of the Hachette group prophesies … But the future is already there and its competitors are aware of it. Gallimard did not hesitate for example, for his beautiful book Rimbaud is aliveto integrate images generated with the help of artificial intelligence tools. Luc Loiseau with the baguette, the eternally young poet is rejected there to imagine his wanderings between 1870 and 1875.
In the spring of 2023, the house of the Humensis group – which also had the observatory, PUF or the Ecuadors – Past/Compounds published If Rome had not droppeda text written by different artificial intelligence tools. Originally and the project management, Raphaël Doan, historian of Antiquity.
The scenario of this uchrony, which tells a world where the Roman Empire is never dead, was imagined by the researcher and author, but the writing and the illustrations were carried out by the AI. The book is preceded by a long introduction where the author explains the way he worked, reveals the shadows of these new tools, but also the reasons why ” Everything invites us to seize them in order to put them at our service ».
To read – Tim Boucher, the author of 120 books written with AI
In the same vein, the Canadian artist Tim Boucher wrote in two years more than a hundred books. For this, it has benefited from the help of various texts of texts generating texts and images. Posted in France by the Typophilia publishing house, he admitted for actualitted that the quality of the result was sometimes ” Good, very good even, and close to human production. Other times, it’s very strange and bad ».
Finally, a teacher of Chinese journalism received in 2023 the second prize for a famous news competition. While the Japanese Rie Kudan won the prestigious Akutagawa literary prize last year, local equivalent of Goncourt, admitting that ” 5 % of the book cite Verbatim sentences generated by AI ». The new world is already there, and, consciously or unconsciously, the authors, the publishers, as much as the juries of literary prizes seem to welcome it with open arms.
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Par Ugo Loumé
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