Bloomsbury Publishing, the British publisher behind the Harry Potter series, has said it does not want its books written by artificial intelligence and rejected the idea that the industry will inevitably have to accept the technology in fiction and non-fiction.
Nigel Newton, executive chairman of the FTSE 250 company, said the publisher opposed the use of AI to write books, but conceded that its use was becoming “very difficult” to detect as the technology grows more sophisticated.
“We recognise the huge value of AI as a research enabler but we do not want our books written by AI,” he said.
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