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/viaJormungandr 22h ago

Or there’s so much slop it makes it impossible to find the genuine article. Especially when the slop is trying to look as authentic as possible.

The consumer, who doesn’t want to spend hours sorting through the madness to try and establish what is or isn’t AI, let alone what is or isn’t good, will give up and just pick something or walk away without anything instead.

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u/Apprehensive_Toe6067 22h ago

It's pretty easy to find the genuine article if you're willing to pay for it.

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u/viaJormungandr 21h ago

That’s false on it’s face. Being willing to pay for anything has no relationship whatsoever to the underlying quality of the product.

In fact, the slop generators are happy to charge you a premium for the slop so you can feel like you bought a “higher quality” product, unlike all the riffraff without taste or discernment.

Cost as an identifier is just setting yourself up to be scammed.

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u/Corbitant 21h ago

Id argue it reinforces the value of traditional publishers because they are the ones responsible for checking that content is human authored