AI Can’t Read Books. It’s Reviewing Them Anyway

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But Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar are sleeping very well at night..

Since most reviewers prefer to actually put eyes on the pages of the book theyre judging, these AI-generated comments would seem to not qualify as actual reviews..

Originally published in 1984, this book remains a timeless masterpiece that celebrates the brilliant minds and boundless creativity that laid the foundation for the digital world we inhabit today.. Still, with its admitted void of emotions and opinions, ChatGPT didnt do what a great review doesopen up a book in a new, insightful way..

To further ponder this, I consulted with Jennifer Senior, a Pulitzer Prizewinning writer who for several years wrote fantastic book reviews for The New York Times..

If I found a particular passage of a book to be too marshy and kind of rough going, the review would say, Some of the book was hard to understand, she says.. The question was whether a future AI book reviewer could make such judgments itself..