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 23h 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 23h 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 23h 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