Society of Authors launches logo to identify human-written books

The Society of Authors has launched a scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books. The initiative, the first of its kind from a UK trade association, lets authors register their books and download a “Human Authored” logo to display on the back cover.

The society said the absence of any government measure to compel tech companies to label AI-generated output meant readers were struggling to distinguish between books written by a human, and machine-generated work based on AI models trained on copyrighted work without permission or payment.

The move mirrors a scheme launched by the Authors Guild in the US. Several high-profile authors have backed the scheme.

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