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Re: Pre-2022 Books

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Post by actionfromafar »

api wrote: post #5
actionfromafar wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but AI is about more than the arts. It's about high fructose corn syrup slop everywhere .

That predates AI and has more to do with the incentives baked into media, especially social media that’s all about “time on app” and “time on site” and therefore infinite scroll brain rot.

It does predate AI. AI makes it much faster though and can close the rot-loop.

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Post by zerobees »

I've been consciously doing that for reference books for the past three years because Amazon is absolutely littered with AI-generated non-fiction. I have my own ideological reasons too, but the main problem is that most of that AI-generated reference stuff is just of incredibly poor quality. It's meant to saturate the platform as cheaply as possible, so no one actually does any fact-checking, editing, layout, and so on. They're not even using frontier models for that.

For example, there are multiple evidently AI-generated titles that come up on the front page if you search for "Rust programming", "cybersecurity book", etc. I guess I can't rule out that "Winston Knowles" is a real person, but I'm not gonna bet money on that: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-Career-Manual-Interview...

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Post by torben-friis »

I haven't seen any minimal sign that any of the fiction books I read lately was LLM helped. Writers seem like a particularly anti AI crowd too.

Has anyone? Now I'm curious if it's just my particular bubble.

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Post by api »

actionfromafar wrote: post #11
api wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That predates AI and has more to do with the incentives baked into media, especially social media that’s all about “time on app” and “time on site” and therefore infinite scroll brain rot.

It does predate AI. AI makes it much faster though and can close the rot-loop.

Get off social media. It’s trash. It was trash before AI and it’s trash now.

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Post by [deleted] »

api wrote: post #2

I honestly find this a little deranged. I’ve read some AI generated prose before and it’s… boring. It tends to be the mathematical average of all stories, with plots that are heavy on cliche and tropes played straight. If I read a book like that it’s probably just going to be a bad book that I don’t finish. Humans write lots of boring bad books too. Eventually artists will figure out how to use AI to make real art th…

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Post by bbg2401 »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #6

I don’t find this at all. Not that many fiction books use a lot of AI prose it seems. Maybe nonfiction is worse?

I'm certainly observing AI smells from a high proportion of the books I read from O'Reilly and Packt since 2023. Authors don't attempt to hide it and some publish the work as if we didn't have a back catalog to distinguish the genuine article from a lazy prompt-driven manuscript.

I'm not seeing the same from the translated fiction works I've picked up in the same time period, thankfully.

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Post by drchaim »

This will happen with social accounts, news articles..I set the date pre 2023, but we all have some date in mind. I don’t like it, but it’s what it is

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Post by andy99 »

I’m pretty conservative with books and usually only read things based on recommendations anyway. I would rarely read a book published in the last few years just because news of it hasn’t travelled to me yet. I think worrying about AI generated books would really only matter if you’re at the bleeding edge of reading and looking for brand new stuff.
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