Artificialintelligence (AI) and machine learning are revolutionizing the publishingindustry. That is the polite term for what is happening. There are other, lesspolite views from those who object to any sort of software doing all the workin a fraction of the time it would take an actual cover artist to do it. Thereare fears it will put a lot of software artists out of work.

In 2025, thesetechnologies will play an even more significant role in content creation,editing, and distribution in various ways as the algorithms grow more and moresophisticated and generate content indistinguishable from human-written text. Usedin journalism it can and probably begin to produce more news articles, reports,and summaries.

These algorithms studyour behaviour online. This allows them to “provide personalized contentrecommendations” or, as some see it, plague us with ads of what to buy next. Itis claimed publishers will be able to provide more of what we actually like. Toolslike  Grammarly already assists writers with editing. I've used it myself and wished it were swifter. By 2025, such tools will offer moresuggestions and reduce the time required for manual editing. 

It will betempting. I can see that. But I also have fear that if authors turn to using AIto “write” six books a year for them, what hope is left for the struggling author who can manage to hold a job and write at night and perhaps publish a title every two years?