AI is pumping out books. Are they any good?
Are all these AI books any good? And by good, we mean are people willing to buy them — not whether the prose is singing.
Today’s indicator
who’ve got some answers and a travel guide expert on why AI can’t replace first-hand experience
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Are all these AI books any good? And by good, we mean are people willing to buy them — not whether the prose is singing. We talk to two researchers who’ve got some answers and a travel guide expert on why AI can’t replace first-hand experience.
Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.
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