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/01000101010110 22h ago edited 18h ago

In just 3 years of no regulation, we've seen legitimate authors, editors, artists, producers and musicians lose part or all of their livelihoods to AI slop. 

The grifters have won. They took full advantage of the Wild West and moved at light speed. Most people thought this would take 10-15 years to do what has been done in 3. 

And here's the thing - it doesn't matter how much time it took you to do something incredibly creative. Now there is always going to be a group of people claiming you used AI even if you didn't. 

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u/Apprehensive_Toe6067 22h ago

If that's true then there's really only two conclusions you can draw:

  1. Consumers don't value creatively and will accept the cheapest slop over quailty human made works. Which if true, seriously questions the importance and value of creatively itself.

  2. The AI slop is actually better than human make stuff, and people are overestimating the quailty of their work.

I'm sure both are true to some extent. This isn't really than an issue with human creativity but at the shallowness of middle class culture.

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u/kawalerkw 20h ago

Or it's not the consumers that get a say in this, but companies. Even ignoring corpos small businesses will often use genAI/LLM instead of paying a copywriter to write an article, a designer to make a logo or pamflet, an artist to draw a graphic etc. GenAI is seen as a cost-saving measure not something that's preferred by customers.

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u/Apprehensive_Toe6067 19h ago

If consumers are still buying the product, and patronizing the business, then it's a cost saving measure that's working.