Not the first

I’ve been using ChatGPT and others to do deep searches for other publishing houses which specialize in AI-assisted work, and there are surprisingly very few. Apart from my own imprint, Lost Books, I’ve only so far uncovered a handful of confirmed cases, including Centuria, ZeroState and one called Heard Island Publishing out of Australia which makes this “confidently wrong” statement in a LinkedIn post about them being first in this space: Heard Island Publishing is an independent publishing house based in Adelaide, South Australia. It is, to our knowledge, the first publishing company in the world dedicated exclusively to AI-assisted and AI-generated literature, and the first built on a founding commitment to transparency about that fact. I started doing transparently discussed AI-assisted publishing more than four years ago, as evidenced by this Newsweek piece I published on it. And I’ve gotten ongoing media coverage about it ever since, so their research above is incomplete, to say…