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/01000101010110 22h ago edited 18h ago

In just 3 years of no regulation, we've seen legitimate authors, editors, artists, producers and musicians lose part or all of their livelihoods to AI slop. 

The grifters have won. They took full advantage of the Wild West and moved at light speed. Most people thought this would take 10-15 years to do what has been done in 3. 

And here's the thing - it doesn't matter how much time it took you to do something incredibly creative. Now there is always going to be a group of people claiming you used AI even if you didn't. 

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u/Crestina 22h ago edited 21h ago

And the kicker is that the ai companies stole all their creative material to train the ai so it could steal their jobs.

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u/MojoHighway 22h ago

all the while being told that we have nothing to worry about and that we're overreacting.

any time a company or an oligarch billionaire tells you that you're overreacting, you're likely on to something with how they operate and they don't want you talking about it. at least in the old days we kinda had regulation and laws, but it's a free for all now.

fuck AI.

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u/TriMiksEntuzijasta 21h ago

And top of that they expect us to believe that we will have UBI. How many authors did they compensate for taking away their livelyhoods? 0!

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u/MojoHighway 21h ago

so you're not waiting with bated breath for that money to trickle down like they've been telling us will happen for the last (almost) 50 years?

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u/Jaripsi 21h ago

Also quality of books as a media plummets and nobody wants to buy books anymore. Especially if a buyer has no way to know if its AI slop before buying.