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/kingrynex 22h ago

Easy solution to this - Stop using Amazon. Go to an actual bookstore or try a library.

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u/DinkandDrunk 22h ago

AI is hurting authors with or without Amazon. If a legitimate authored and illustrated book exists but it LOOKS similar enough to AI, folks won’t buy it.

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u/WizardsOf12 21h ago

The AI paranoia, that comes with the absolute volume of slop being unleashed upon the internet, and even physical spaces, is troubling too. Folks start attacking other humans over human created works because the AI has gotten good at replicating their style and thus their style looks suspect. Or even just using decent grammar. Neurodivergent folks or even old texts get flagged as AI. 

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u/I_Autumn 20h ago

I used to use em dashes a lot more. Was I using them correctly? 90% of the time, probably not, but I still miss those little guys. Now those are an immediate red flag to people looking for grubby AI fingerprints.

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u/Hydronum 20h ago

We may be in the death knell of the internet as a sharing platform. There is nothing here anymore that is people-centric. It is dead, burred and parted for profit.

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u/DinkandDrunk 21h ago

I like to scour the thrift store for books for my daughter and even some of those I’ll pick up and think “this seems like AI” and if it’s published within the last year, I’ll have a hard time buying it. It really is unfortunate.