Welcome to the Prompty Awards. Welcome to the future of fiction. Does that sound bold and presumptuous? I certainly hope so.
If you’re here, I suspect that you are a person whose creative drives carry you into new experiences and encourage you to try new things. Perhaps you’ve started tapping into the power of AI to produce great stories. I applaud your sense of adventure and creativity.
Let me tell you what we’re trying to do here with the Prompty Awards. We are at a moment of transition in the world of writing and publishing. Many people are against the use of AI to write books. However, while I, and I suspect many reasonable people, are opposed to the misuse of AI to create junk and engage in willful plagiarism, I think most of the opponents of AI fiction are missing the point.
AI fiction is simply happening. Feel free to call me out on this in five years, but I suspect that by the early 2030s, the majority of readers will neither notice that a book is AI fiction nor care. A good story is a good story.
But, copyright? Yes, it’s an issue, but it’s overblown. The AI copyright problem is like a life preserver that traditionalists are grasping onto as the AI publishing revolution sweeps across the industry. Again, I could be wrong, but I think within five years, the issue will be resolved and new precedents set through cases involving the major publishing houses.
In the meantime, if you’ve used AI to create a compelling work of fiction, I encourage you to enter it into the Prompty Awards.
If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to us through email or the contact form.
Hugh Taylor
Organizer
The Prompty Awards