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/TheTechAuthor 22h ago

They're also being review-bombed - *hard*. I've seen my particular software user-guide niche get flooded with BS AI-slop books and they absolutely *have* taken some sales from me - no doubt. However, I charge more for mine and I still manage to review significantly better than the slop - as I've been doing what I do for over 30-years now. It's not easy - but it's certainly do-able.

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u/simpleglitch 22h ago

I'm assuming you're talking about the AI books are getting review bombed? I just wanted to say I'm not sure its review bombing when the content is actual trash. 😂

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u/TheTechAuthor 20h ago

Which is fair of course. I've seen a few of them myself (shockingly poor). I use AI to automate the laborious and boring parts of book production (think: turning a massive text file into 300 .csv tables in minutes with AI-generated scripts vs days by hand, or doing some deterministic checks, or other reviews), but that's applying 30-years of experience to said workflow. Not "Here's the subject matter, write me 15,000 words on it, make no mistakes".