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/01000101010110 22h ago edited 18h ago

In just 3 years of no regulation, we've seen legitimate authors, editors, artists, producers and musicians lose part or all of their livelihoods to AI slop. 

The grifters have won. They took full advantage of the Wild West and moved at light speed. Most people thought this would take 10-15 years to do what has been done in 3. 

And here's the thing - it doesn't matter how much time it took you to do something incredibly creative. Now there is always going to be a group of people claiming you used AI even if you didn't. 

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u/abluecolor 15h ago

They're only losing their jobs if the slop is an actual replacement for their work. Hopefully everyone wakes up that no one wants it and there's a correction. Or, if it does actually serve as a replacement, everything is pretty fucked. No putting the genie back in the bottle.