An Editor Creates A “Human-Made” Label.
Creation Humaine now certifies to readers that written, audiovisual, or musical works are the product of the human mind.
It all started with a biography published on Amazon by a certain “Grace Shaw”.
Léon Gautier, a Frenchman who participated in the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings, passed away in July 2023. Two days later, a book was published. Leon’s family reported it was filled with inaccuracies.
In a new development in the battle against artificial intelligence, publishing house Librinova has created a label to certify that a book has indeed been written by a human.
The self-publishing company announced on January 8th that it has partnered with Label Création humaine, a company launched in 2023 to certify written, audiovisual, or musical works.
The aim is to certify to readers that future books are not produced by artificial intelligence, and is the product of a human mind.
The label aims to be a warrant of the intentional and motivated creation process of its author, without the use of language model-generated content such as ChatGPT, Bard, or Llama, as stated on the company’s website.
Librinova will offer the service starting mid-January, allowing authors to display the label on a book cover if they wish. Authors will have to disburse 49€ to get the ‘human made’ label stamped on their book.
How to be certified “Without AI”?
To be certified, a book must meet several criteria.
- The author must first provide “a contractual commitment in which they attest that their creation was entirely conceived, developed, and realized by human means,” explains Charlotte Allibert, co-founder of Librinova
- The text will reviewed through two “detectors” of AI-generated text;
- The author will be “interviewed” by a professional auditor, who will also read samples of the text.
“None of these steps alone would be sufficient to label the work, but it is their combination that makes the label reliable and credible,” says Charlotte Allibert to franceinfo.
More and more self-published books, particularly on the Amazon platform, Kindle Direct Publishing, are written by generative artificial intelligence software. Librinova and Création humaine estimate that there are “several thousand” in France.
Fighting AI with AI
Librinova is one of the most prolific publishers in France, with 9,000 titles since its creation in 2014. Authors pay to be published, with the advantage that they subsequently receive a significant share of the sale price (70%), but without benefiting from the visibility of a traditional publisher. A gamble for writers.
While the index is not foolproof against changes made by an author afterward, it “allows discrimination of 100% unmodified AI content without style variations,” as mentioned on the company’s website.
Written in record time, books often suffer from serious factual errors, as generative AI can make.
At the very least, this approach aims to limit unfair competition from AI, ensuring a check on the publication of unverified information and global distortions.
