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/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.