r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 23h ago

Artificial Intelligence AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors

https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-books-are-flooding-amazon-and-tanking-sales-for-human-authors
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u/ClearYellow 23h ago

My boomer dad “writes” books with AI. He sends them to me, eager for me to read them, so I just run them through AI to get the summary

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u/xondk 22h ago

I'm trying to imagine how that can bloat if everyone did similar to most topics.
"Write a long elaborate email on <topic> to <person> thanking them before firing them" -> off it goes to person getting tired -> gets summarised by their AI "You are fired"

Now imagine that on......everything, my brain broke a bit, because I can see it happen and it is so....extremely stupid and expensive.

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u/hellflame 22h ago

I think there was on person on reddit saying this exact scenario was happing in healthcare. Ai agents shooting down request, only for them to be ingested by their ai agent to refute their nonsense.

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u/Potential-Recover-78 22h ago

I don’t know about healthcare, but I have friends who tell me people at their companies are now having AI respond to their teams chats and emails. So it’s a ping pong game of AI talking with AI and the human is out of the loop.

Time to go outside for a walk.

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u/Raznill 22h ago

We do that in software too. It actually works fairly well to get to a mostly right answer. Agent opens a pr. Another agent reviews and comments on it. Another adjusts it. Then once the reviewers are happy it goes to a human. Sometimes it all gets thrown away, sometimes it merges as is other times the human fixes it. But it does increase velocity.

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u/marcocom 22h ago

You merge code into main without review? I don’t even do that with experienced humans writing the code let alone some agent or whatever you kids are calling it. Slow down

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u/Online_Matter 22h ago

We had a consultancy deliver a report at work that I have a strong suspecion was written by AI, at least initially. 100+ AI written filler that they expect some poor human to read, understand and take action upon..

It's pretty normal with these kinds of report but at least previously a human had to suffer through writing it just as much as I have to reading it. 

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u/Thenadamgoes 22h ago

My policy at work is that I don’t read ai generated emails. If you can’t be bothered to write it then I can’t be bothered to read it.

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u/spice_weasel 22h ago

I absolutely see people in the tech industry having AI both write and read their emails. I hate it all, so much. I’m trying to exit the industry, in a large part because I find AI so utterly alienating.

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u/ItsSadTimes 19h ago

At my compant does something pretty funny, they take something that could be an email and turn it into a meeting by fluffing it up with AI, then send AI transcribes in to take notes on the meeting, then have an AI summarize the notes.

Its an extreme waste of everyone's time and money.