Behind the counter at Omaha bookstore The Bookworm, they keep an example of what you might get if you fall for a scam.There are few pages, and it doesn’t make a lot of sense.The Bookworm’s Connor Osborn read from the book: “he go directly to room and saw Jacob romancing a lady.”He’ll show that book to customers who ask to special order a book that raises red flags, including low page count and an author that lacks information online.He says they’re mass-produced by artificial intelligence and flood online marketplaces. Plus he says a few books in the store have AI-generated cover art. Osborn isn’t a fan of that, saying it takes jobs away from artists. He worries reliance on AI will stunt creativity.”AI can only go off what already exists,” Osborn said. “The whole part of art…is to create new things.”Some students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are preparing to enter a world where their careers will be “shaped by the advent of generative AI,” explained Adrian Wisnicki, who teaches course on AI. “What we’ll do is step back and think about how the language model works and how the kinds of things that they might put it might be crafted to be more optimal, to give them the kind of results they want,” he explained. “But always … how to do this ethically, mindfully and openly.”How to use AI without doing the actual writing is something some writers are thinking about.Nebraska author Victorine Lieske, of Scottsbluff, said she might use AI to generate character names, for example. She said she doesn’t feel threatened by AI.”If you are writing well-produced content, then you will find your audience, and that will rise above the junk,” she said.But Lieske wrote her first book, “Not What She Seems,” in a week while she rested from an injury. Then, she reworked it for four years with the help of feedback groups. She thinks AI might have only served as a crutch for her and kept her from truly learning if it were around then.
Behind the counter at Omaha bookstore The Bookworm, they keep an example of what you might get if you fall for a scam.
There are few pages, and it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
The Bookworm’s Connor Osborn read from the book: “he go directly to room and saw Jacob romancing a lady.”
He’ll show that book to customers who ask to special order a book that raises red flags, including low page count and an author that lacks information online.
He says they’re mass-produced by artificial intelligence and flood online marketplaces.
Plus he says a few books in the store have AI-generated cover art. Osborn isn’t a fan of that, saying it takes jobs away from artists. He worries reliance on AI will stunt creativity.
“AI can only go off what already exists,” Osborn said. “The whole part of art…is to create new things.”
Some students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are preparing to enter a world where their careers will be “shaped by the advent of generative AI,” explained Adrian Wisnicki, who teaches course on AI.
“What we’ll do is step back and think about how the language model works and how the kinds of things that they might put it might be crafted to be more optimal, to give them the kind of results they want,” he explained. “But always … how to do this ethically, mindfully and openly.”
How to use AI without doing the actual writing is something some writers are thinking about.
Nebraska author Victorine Lieske, of Scottsbluff, said she might use AI to generate character names, for example.
She said she doesn’t feel threatened by AI.
“If you are writing well-produced content, then you will find your audience, and that will rise above the junk,” she said.
But Lieske wrote her first book, “Not What She Seems,” in a week while she rested from an injury. Then, she reworked it for four years with the help of feedback groups. She thinks AI might have only served as a crutch for her and kept her from truly learning if it were around then.
