No, I’m not a Luddite, I’m an author/publisher who believes in protecting copyrights.

Artificial Intelligence is more like Artificial Thief.

Say you want A.I. to create you a cover for your book. You go in, enter your parameters, and click GO.

A.I. does not draw anything, it just snatches graphics from all around the Internet and composites them.

Give it parameters to write a book and it lifts it from other books.

Even if the graphics and text are massaged, it’s not an original work.

I read an estimate that 20% of Amazon books are now A.I. generated.

Congress should pass laws against A.I. stealing other people’s work. It’s an example of Michael Crichton’s warning that Congress is good at making laws against things that exist and don’t matter, but predicting what’s coming and limiting that is beyond them.

Think twice about A.I. generating your cover. If an artist can see their work in it, you may get sued.