As They Supposedly Battle AI Slop, Major Publishers Reportedly Cover Their Books in It

In the 21st century publishing world, I can tell you from experience that even before LLMs, book authors who didn’t step in and do things themselves—or hire a freelancer with part of their advance—could often end up seeing surprisingly little effort go into things like design and publicity copy. But a new, anonymously-sourced report from Wired suggests AI is taking things from bad to worse.

Wired talked to “more than two dozen” anonymous publishing industry employees, and found that three…