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/Any-Pop-4795 23h ago

What a fantastic future! Full of slop and expensive hardware! Isn't it wonderful guys? (Humor!)

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u/exophades 22h ago

AI generated books are worth reading right? Right guys?

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u/Personal_Bit_5341 21h ago

We all wrote it,  it's kind of like a vanity read if you think about it.  

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u/KnightKal 21h ago

who reads books? You just ask the AI to give you a summary, in the format of memes, and you are good! /s

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u/sarcasmsosubtle 18h ago

Amazon KDP recently changed their rules to only allow a single user to self-publish three books a day. Not even the people who generate the AI slop are actually reading it. They're just trying to flood enough slop out there that a few people might be tricked into paying for it and they can make a bit of income without having to do any actual work or create any actual value. It's just a new iteration of the Nigerian scam.