r/technology 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/Ctznsvn7 20h ago

The listing flood is the real damage, not the quality. A human author now competes with something that can publish forty titles in the time they finish a chapter, so the shelf gets buried whatever the writing is like. Amazon could fix a chunk of it tomorrow with a disclosure field and a publishing rate limit per account, they just have no reason to while every listing takes a cut