NewNewAugustEast comments on AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Well duh. Also real authors are flooding Amazon with crap too. Have people not been paying attention?

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Before AI they offered a lot of books which were just printed wikipedia articles.

However AI books massively increases the problem, because they can be created by the thousands, millions even, in seconds by any grifter out there, and there are a lot of grifters.

Any sort of argument of "it has always been bad" (and it has), are not very constructive, because the current situation enhances the shittification of the internet on a scale that was impossible before. It is an unprecedented situation.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago

Yeah it really is. So was Amazon bulk printing pulp.

Its almost like maybe amazon wasn't the place to get random books.

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