GenAi is a tool like any other. If an author has been able to build earn my trust, I’d trust them to use the genai tool responsibly as well. This includes being

GenAi is a tool like any other. If an author has been able to build earn my trust, I’d trust them to use the genai tool responsibly as well. This includes being ultimately responsible for the veracity of any claims made. If the facts end up being wrong, they’d lose my trust regardless of whether genai is in the loop or not. This abstracts to a publisher or company level as well. For now, gen ai has enough issues that a human should probably be in the loop, either as a collaborating author or editor. At some point, that will probably change and that is okay with me. You also make a good point about why buy books. Perhaps at some point gen ai will be good enough to generate high quality, true, and personalized info such that we won’t have to! The fraud issue is interesting. I personally disclose when I use genai. But I wouldn’t be offended if someone else didn’t. Again, if I trust someone, I trust them to use the tool responsible. If I don’t, I’d take what they say with a grain of salt anyway.