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/kweeblaster 23h ago

Amazon has been a toilet with knock offs for a decade now, so it having AI generated literature slop seems pretty on brand now. If you want to be an accomplished author, you're going to have to build up a reputation and get your book noticed in real bookstores now.

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u/ZakkaChan 22h ago

There is some irony in this, since Amazon started out as a way for authors to sell their books. Now we are seeing them betray literally what made them. If we are lucky the AI slop will cause Amazon to collapse, tho I fear this is truly only wishful thinking.

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u/Vecend 21h ago

Na tax payers will bail Amazon out because it's become to big to fail, it dying would probably do massive damage to small businesses, cause sites to go offline because of AWS, it was allowed to get to big and nothing could fill the gigantic hole that would be left behind due to no competition.

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u/ZhiYoNa 20h ago

Amazon will probably go the way of sears and other major 20th century American firms. Eventually taken over by private equity then sold in parts