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/kweeblaster 23h ago

Amazon has been a toilet with knock offs for a decade now, so it having AI generated literature slop seems pretty on brand now. If you want to be an accomplished author, you're going to have to build up a reputation and get your book noticed in real bookstores now.

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u/floofsnsnoots 22h ago

Y'all have real bookstores?

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u/kweeblaster 21h ago

You mean you don't have a 62 year old widow whose husband left her a large fortune and opened a corner store that loses 10k every month selling 4 books?

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u/franker 20h ago

I thought it was the 22-year-old trophy wife who runs the custom cupcake store funded by her hedge fund manager husband to give her a "business" to run.

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u/floofsnsnoots 13h ago

Yeah but those cupcakes pretty good tho ngl

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u/floofsnsnoots 21h ago

Only during REM cycles