I weep. It was excruciatingly hard already to find someone interested in your work to bring it to market, agents literally drown in awesome books they can't publish profitably. A perfect example - A Confederacy Of Dunces - couldn't find an agent/publisher until after the writer's death, then immediately won a pulitzer. this was the late 60's-70s iirc.

Now add the torrent of new writers with an interconnected world wide network.

Then add the tsunami of AI garbage.

We're going to lose masterpieces because of that tsunami, and instead we'll get AI garbage.

This generation of AI won't "succeed", I will be surprised if any current companies survive the eventual bubble pop. The LLMs will survive obviously as any other useful tech does.

With the amount they have been funded, borrowed and valued at they need to replace a mass of workers with "Agentic AI" to make the trillions of return they expect/need in like 4 years from now. LLMs doing this is a pipe dream, more GPUs won't make an LLM sentient. And every other use case is a losing proposition for these companies.

and yes it was published on the biggest fucking commercial website to exist in the history of man.

that doesn't mean it will be bought and read, not in the large numbers, so hold your horses there.

and i have to say i find the story not very trustworthy. i can't imagine that llm would generate such long text and it would make enough sense that editing it wouldn't need more work than writing the text from scratch.

Lol show me one example where ai is decent. It is nowhere close to talented people. Maybe on uni student level