How do you know if the book you hold between your ten fingers is the product of a human brain? As more and more books are written using artificial intelligence, the label “Human Creation” promises an answer to this burning question.
This certification was created in 2023 by a company that partnered with Librinova earlier this year. With more than 9,000 titles published since its founding in 2014, this publisher specializing in self-publishing (where authors pay to be published) occupies a central place.
A “Four-Step Process”
Since mid-January, authors have had the opportunity to affix this label to the cover of their works. A way to overcome the competition generated by artificial intelligence. The “Human Creation” label would like to attract more publishers and expand its activities into the audiovisual and musical sectors.
That is a “Four-step process” reachable within ten working days, guaranteed I book on his website. The manuscript is first submitted to the “Human Creation” label. The author must then undertake to certify the authenticity of his creation “designed, developed and manufactured entirely by human means”. Only the use of artificial intelligence for “Research purposes” is permitted according to the label.
In the third step, the work is subjected to an artificial intelligence detector, which is supposed to determine whether the proposed word sequence seems logical to it. Less so, “The higher the probability that the text was designed by a human”explain Release. In the final step, several samples are then examined and compared by the detector. If all steps are validated, the author can receive the label.
“Several thousand” self-published books in circulation
“Several thousand” of self-published books written with generative artificial intelligence software have become widespread in recent months, assure Librinova and the label “Human Creation”. These are written in just a few hours and usually contain numerous factual errors.
In addition, several literary works offered for sale on Amazon have drawn the ire of readers. The biography of the resistance fighter Léon Gautier, which was published just two days after his death by a certain “Grace Shaw”, attracted the wrath of his relatives. In particular, the book states that Léon Gautier was a prisoner in Germany, which, according to his family, is a falsehood.
Therefore, this technology still needs improvement and would not be able to satisfy fans of inventive stories: “At the moment you can’t write a novel with a tool like ChatGPT, you can only get help” literary theory researcher Alexandre Gefen assured in an interview with The cross in June.
