Ask HN: Do you see a human written book more valuable than an AI written one?
6 pointsby znano5 hours ago7 comments
  • akudha2 hours ago
    An equally important question is - how many people are easily able to differentiate between AI and human works? It will increasingly get harder and harder, especially with digital art. Maybe fiction not so much, but it will get harder in non-fiction writing too, especially sports commentary, technical documentation etc
    • diehunde29 minutes ago
      Even if people can't tell the difference, they will have an opinion about the content, and my intuition says AI-written stuff would get worse reviews.
  • sfpk4 hours ago
    It sounds like you are presenting us with "100% AI" or "100% human".

    You could prompt 'is this dialogue bit realistic for an [man v. woman]+[profession]+background. Or you can dream up other targeted prompts that could improve your writing, plot, realism, geographic details, character-arc, historical details, etc.

  • f646993e074382f3 hours ago
    Yes, 100%. If you want to get the writing improved, hire an editor.
  • hans_castorp5 hours ago
    I value human work more than AI - especially if that book is fiction rather than some technical documentation.
    • znano5 hours ago
      It is kind of an technical book but very introductory about decentralization and cryptoanarchism. It is highly biased and opinionated tho.
  • mso3i5 hours ago
    Fiction/Non fiction?

    If its a text book I think you are looking at it the wrong way. Having someone who has spent serious amount of time on a subject, is like meeting someone who has explored some part of jungle I haven't visited. The info that has accumulated in your head through that process is what is interesting.

    I stopped reading books not because AI is mesmerizing but because I find the non-interactive nature of books irritating after too much AI use. ChatGPT allows me to stop and explore something, slow things down, bypass other things, connect it to other things etc etc

    My suggestion would be make it interactive. Release it with an interactive interface rag or fine tuned to your ideas and content. Use your imagination on how that interactivity should be shaped.

  • bell-cot4 hours ago
    If you want human readers - remember that roughly zero humans will ever read even 0.01% of the world's human-written books. Sticking your head down the "human author vs. AI author" rabbit hole may be a poor use of time.

    Or - back when electric typewriters were cutting-edge tech, only a puny percentage of human-written books were accepted for publication. Writing well is difficult. Look at bio's of famous authors - roughly zero mastered the skill after only 18 month and one book draft.

    • znanoan hour ago
      Well im not gonna sell it so im not worried about publishers. It's a libre book, completely free and opensource but i don't like it to be mistaken with AI slop because i know how much effort it took me to write it especially since im not a native speaker. Im wondering now that any book can be written by AI does anyone still appreciate a book that's not perfect but it's written by a human.
  • dude2507115 hours ago
    Absolutely.