{"id":1016259,"date":"2026-06-23T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016259"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:44:02","slug":"when-you-judge-a-book-by-its-ai-cover-the-debate-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/when-you-judge-a-book-by-its-ai-cover-the-debate-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"When you judge a book by its AI cover: the debate escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes flexing muscles polished to a shine, floating dice and blazing fiery red-orange skies. Before the story even begins, this cover is already blown &#8212; AI-generated, not created. <\/p>\n<p>Readers have always judged books by their covers. And when covers start looking like they&#8217;re the result of a handful of prompts instead of well thought out creative briefs, the concerns are multifold. Readers begin to question the originality of the text, the designer&#8217;s skill in shaping curiosity rather than killing it is clouded in doubt and publishers worry that interest in the book will take a hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes flexing muscles polished to a shine, floating dice and blazing fiery red-orange skies. Before the story even begins, this cover is already blown &#8212; AI-generated, not created. Readers have always judged books by their covers. And when covers start looking like they&#8217;re the result of a handful of prompts instead of well thought out creative briefs, the concerns are multifold. Readers begin to question the originality of the text, the designer&#8217;s skill in shaping curiosity rather than killing it is clouded in doubt and publishers worry that interest in the book will take a hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016287,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016259\/revisions\/1016287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}