An announcement that became troublesome; Will artificial intelligence take over the publishing industry?

A startup that plans to produce 8,000 books using artificial intelligence by next year has been criticized by authors and publishers. The publication of a corporate announcement about the production of 8,000 books by 2025 using artificial intelligence has caused controversy in the publishing industry.

In the announcement of this company, this action is described as a revolutionary initiative and step towards democratizing the book publishing process; Many authors and publishers have expressed strong opposition to the move, citing concerns about quality, originality, and the potential diminution of human creativity.

Spines, the company that made the announcement, was founded in 2021 and bills itself as a forward-thinking publishing platform that uses artificial intelligence to streamline the book production process. The company has announced that it offers services such as auto-correction, cover design, metadata optimization and translation; Spines has announced that by using artificial intelligence, it can reduce the time required to publish a book from 6-18 months to 2-3 weeks.

One of the founders and CEO of Spines says that the goal of launching this startup is to help one million writers; Authors must pay between $1,200 and $5,000 to this company to receive this service. The action of this company has upset many publishers; A group of publishers believe that authors are throwing away 5 thousand dollars by receiving services from this company.

According to these publishers, AI tools are still no better than editors and the company is defrauding authors. The CEO of this company says in response to criticism: “We are not here to replace human creativity. “We focus on books whose authors are looking for the most efficient and up-to-date way to publish and distribute their manuscripts worldwide.”

He suggests the technology for those who aren’t trying to make a living writing a book, but are doing it as “a hobby” and want to leave a “legacy.” It can be said that Spines is an unpleasant vision of the future, so far, artificial intelligence has had some uses in traditional publishing houses, but to date the entire publishing process has not been done by artificial intelligence.

Currently, Microsoft is looking to use technology to speed up and democratize the book publishing process and is creating a rigorous editing process; In fact, Spines is not alone in moving towards a cheap and fast future using artificial intelligence.