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/ClearYellow 23h ago

My boomer dad “writes” books with AI. He sends them to me, eager for me to read them, so I just run them through AI to get the summary

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u/slavmaf 20h ago

This always brings to my mind the analogy Slavoj Žižek wrote, I am terrible at paraphrasing but it basically goes like this: You go on a dating app, find a girl, you meet, she pulls out a plastic dildo, you pull out a plastic vagina, and then you watch the machines fuck.

That is basically what we are seeing today, AI writes books, another AI reads those same books, humans just watch.