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Tag and Filter AI books
Jun 4, 2025
We are starting to see books being written, graphic novels being illustrated, and audio books being narrated by generative AI. I believe that the best way for us combat generative AI is by not supporting authors who admit to using generative AI for covers, story or audio books. This could be hard to do because authors who use generative AI aren't upfront about it.
I propose that librarians can add tags to books that authors admit to using generative AI for. Having authors admit to this is the only reliable way to tell unfortunately, otherwise, this becomes a witch hunt.
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I think a feature like this could end up being really important going forward. In particular I'm thinking more and more books where the text/content is AI generated are going to end up being added, and it will be very useful to be able to filter those out of recommendations etc or easily see that at a glance.
I agree that, at least with current information, it should only be marked as AI if confirmed. This would weaken the feature somewhat but I think it's more important to make sure there aren't false accusations (both in terms of protecting authors, and protecting storygraph from being accused of sharing false information).
For me personally, the text/content of the book is most important here. If there are also markers for AI generated images (cover or internal but supplementary, not in a graphic novel/comic) or audio books, I'd prefer these to be a separate marker. Many people may want to avoid books which are written by an AI model but be willing to compromise on ones written by a human but with an AI generated image used on the cover, for example - especially given that those sorts of decisions can sometimes be outside of the author's control.