If you’re a reader, you know how frustrating it can be when the film adaptation of your favourite book doesn’t live up to your imagination. But film studios — usually — put in a lot of effort into making sure the movie is true to its literary roots.
Now imagine if someone just fed the book to AI and called it a day. That’s exactly what Urdu novelist Umera Ahmed’s team is worried about.
In an Instagram post on the writer’s official page, they thanked readers for the “tremendous love and support” they had shown her novels over the years and said they had noticed “a lot of AI-generated images, videos and reels trying to depict scenes, characters and dialogues from the novels”.
“We kindly ask all content creators and pages not to generate or share any AI visuals of Umera Ahmed’s work,” the post said.
The team said literature cultivated a very personal experience for those who enjoyed it and AI content deprived readers of that “personal connection”. They also said some of Ahmed’s works — like the novel Peer-e-Kamil — were so “deep, sensitive and spiritual” that no one should dilute their “beauty and sanctity” with AI.
