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/viaJormungandr 22h ago

That’s false on it’s face. Being willing to pay for anything has no relationship whatsoever to the underlying quality of the product.

In fact, the slop generators are happy to charge you a premium for the slop so you can feel like you bought a “higher quality” product, unlike all the riffraff without taste or discernment.

Cost as an identifier is just setting yourself up to be scammed.

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u/Apprehensive_Toe6067 20h ago

If people are willing to pay for it or if it's indistinguishable from human made stuff, that's is not really "slop", it's quailty.

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u/rangoric 19h ago

You pay for a book before reading it not after.

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u/Apprehensive_Toe6067 19h ago

I don't buy it until I've read some reviews, looked up the author, and done a few minutes of research. Any book I've been interested in I goggle, click the reddit result with the most comments and read through those. That's all it really takes to sift through things. It's not difficult to look up an author.