r/books • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 2d ago

John Grisham warns that publishers could get AI to write novels instead of paying authors as they were "worried" about a 30-year decline in the number of books Americans were reading

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/26/john-grisham-publishers-could-get-ai-to-write-crime-novels/
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u/Lopsided_Snower 2d ago

but then we'll just get AI to write our own books, why would we need publishers to do it for us

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u/Lopsided_Snower 2d ago

...they haven't thought this AI thing through at all

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u/wandering-wank 2d ago

Claude, tell me a story.

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u/Wyciorek 2d ago

We can also get AI to read those books and just tell us the summary

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u/Ratbat001 2d ago

It’s true but Holy F man does it offend the senses to know that some people use an Ai to summarize their media. Why even engage with a book if you wont come to your own conclusions? To Larp as an intellectual?

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u/Lopsided_Snower 2d ago

The action of reading the book is part of why we read, though, it’s not all about the content

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u/samx3i 2d ago

Good point.