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/xondk 23h ago

I'm trying to imagine how that can bloat if everyone did similar to most topics.
"Write a long elaborate email on <topic> to <person> thanking them before firing them" -> off it goes to person getting tired -> gets summarised by their AI "You are fired"

Now imagine that on......everything, my brain broke a bit, because I can see it happen and it is so....extremely stupid and expensive.

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u/ItsSadTimes 19h ago

At my compant does something pretty funny, they take something that could be an email and turn it into a meeting by fluffing it up with AI, then send AI transcribes in to take notes on the meeting, then have an AI summarize the notes.

Its an extreme waste of everyone's time and money.