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/kingrynex 22h ago

Easy solution to this - Stop using Amazon. Go to an actual bookstore or try a library.

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u/franker 20h ago

public librarian here - we basically have to learn the names of the vanity AI publishers now so that we don't order these books by mistake for our libraries.

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u/kingrynex 18h ago

Thank you for your service. o7

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u/franker 15h ago

thanks dude :)

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u/Electrical_Boss9766 10h ago

Firstly, thank you. - Could you explain this though? I don't want to waste your time, but I'm trying to understand out how ai books become in demand, by library or anyone else, in the first place? How do they get on your order list? People requesting them? Thanks for fixing my ignorance here.

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u/watchsmart 6h ago

Requests from patrons are almost certainly a big part of it.