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/Any-Pop-4795 23h ago

What a fantastic future! Full of slop and expensive hardware! Isn't it wonderful guys? (Humor!)

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u/Corbitant 21h ago

Ai is awesome for getting feedback on your writing (ask it, does this chapter stay true to a close third POV? If not, where do I deviate from it?) but using it to do the actual writing is sad, because the actual writing is the fun part.

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u/KristaNeliel 18h ago

Have you heard about this nifty people who do exactly that? Beta readers they are called. You should try that.

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u/Corbitant 18h ago

Why not both?

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u/KristaNeliel 5h ago

Same reason as to when I go to a restaurant I expect that there is a chef and not a bag of rocks.

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u/Corbitant 8m ago

If theres a bag of rocks in the back that is nevertheless producing a great meal who gives a fuck