Day of the book: Man or AI – Who will write our books tomorrow?

You write the stories, Coffee Before cooling, the action strands and the spiders of the end chapter: Artificial Intelligence (AI) are no longer future music – not even in the world of big books. Lonely fights were used on the desk, which is becoming a human-masine project.

Some lines are enough to solve the block of the notorious author, to create a story of children or design a thriller plot at a time. But at first glance what seems like a practical assistant, gives a terribleness in literary view – and resistance.

What happens to creativity when people like AIs such as chat or cloud write instead of people? Can AI really understand what goes on children or makes a book unforgettable? Experts and writers are doubted – and a short circuit warning in literature.

“Children’s books, at least with a literary claim, do not follow a plan,” says Margit AUR, a book writer of children from the German Press Agency (DPA). They live with surprise, warmly, intelligent. ” She sees important that “stories with stories” should spit a computer in the future: “Surely, AI can write a good story. But this story will be interchangeable.”

Creativity cannot be calculated

Apart from Auer, many authors have severely commented in recent years about artificial intelligence. For “Ink Heart” author Cornelia Phanke, it is worrying that more and more publishers are using AI for book design. In one of her Instagram posts, she talks about the “betrayal” of all the things that and can do books.

Young painters “tried to live a life through the art of their hands. With all the atoms about artificial intelligence and their dangers, they are now used in areas that are to celebrate human creativity and expression?” She writes in her post. That is a clear “not!” From the authors and the publisher. It should not be about the fun of “making books with people”.

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“This would be a major violation of my authors if I was helped by AI. Children’s books have succeeded when they reach the hearts of their readers,” emphasizes AUR. For the author of the famous “The School of Magic Animals” series, the readers must be sympathetic with the main character and above all “bubers”.

“You have to cross your fingers that she somehow comes out of the dirt that I fell to her as a writer.” AI should not be the first solution to write a block. “There is no peace, concentration, too much pound on you. You have to relax to be able to write.” Instead of asking AI directly, it prefers to walk in nature.

Culture vs Code: Copyright Question

According to the German copyright law, only individual mental compositions of the people are preserved as a work. Therefore, the material that is fully generated by artificial intelligence cannot be protected by copyright. Ministry of Justice (BMJ) emphasizesThat purely AI-based materials lack the essential human creativity.

But not only the writers are worried. Science also comes from science – for example when it comes to the question whether AI can be creative. Nikola Robach, a literary scholar from the University of Casel, states that machines can now take material from the network and spend them again in the same way. But
Literary studies that are sometimes obtained from students, the result is not very original. “In the best case, the expected, formally well, smart, sounding and mentally massive average.”

Literature needs unexpected

It also applies to literature in AI. “When I feed in 999 Goethe texts and a thousandth of it comes for Goethe-sounding text-what is really no longer out of you, is it?” If it is about the author and originality, however, one must mention that these ideas were invented without such positions by modern time and earlier text traditions. “The texts were not made from the machine, but they were passed orally, without a fixed writer and even without claims of innovation in modern sense,” Rubac says.

Ki Frankfurt Book Fair also had a central theme in 2024. Karin Schmit-Friday, head of the German Book Trade Boresenverin, emphasized that clear rules were required at that time. AI can support processes, simplify and give creative impulses, but the skills of these systems are based on “the biggest data theft in history”.

If the spark should leave

Especially in children and youth book fields, relationships between writers, lessons and readers are often particularly emotionally charged. “I think it is normally similar to art in children and youth literature,” literary scholars explain Robac. Here too, there is more “mass goods”, which can still delight and entertain its audience. The use of AI is well understood there.

On the other hand, there will be greater demand, deep literature that will be associated with a specific voice. “And this voice is infallible with the fact that it is not expected. A new book of the children’s book writer does not look the same as the previous one,” says Rubac. The AI ​​language models can only calculate the possibility of the next word-robes, on the other hand, set a completely unexpected word.

Does AI become a tool for creative or competition – which remains an open question. One thing is clear: Books that touch or trigger emotions are not just from algorithms. There are many story levels in novels and children’s books. Auer says that the history of action level or adventure may be able to write AI. “But the mutual level, which always has to be echoed, does not get AI. AI is humor? I have not tried it yet, but doubt it.”

(GREF)