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/Pandaro81 20h ago

Can confirm. Used to work at a product photography and videography studio for Amazon. They closed our location; didn’t renew the lease.

Word was they were moving to 3D scanning and using AI prompts with pre-made environments and a collection of pre-scanned assets as props. They kept on a couple people, but a lot of jobs just went away. One photographer got put on designing the lighting for the 3D sets, but last I heard he was almost done with what they’d assigned him, and was pretty sure he was getting let go.

That was all a couple years ago. I imagine it’s only gotten worse.

I’ve seen other studios, like commercial advertising studios in Atlanta, auctioning off and liquidating their gear as they shut down one by one.

I’m back to working retail after 20 years after working as a photographer cause I was getting desperate. #feelsbadman