UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

by throwaway81523on 3/14/2026, 11:45 PMwith 1 comments

by skissaneon 3/15/2026, 3:00 AM

The problem I see with this-AI-generated versus human-written isn’t a binary, it is a continuum.

One person gives an AI a brief prompt, the AI writes a whole novel, person publishes it without even reading it first

Another person spends weeks tinkering with prompts, producing dozens of outputs for the same prompt and deciding which to keep and which to cut, editing numerous AI outputs together - that’s still partially AI-generated, but with vastly more human input than the first case

A third person does all the writing themselves, but uses an AI for review, copyediting, as a source of ideas or suggestions, as a brainstorming partner… maybe the AI suggested a few turns of phrase here and there, or gave them some story ideas

Where do you draw the line?