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Re: Pre-2022 Books

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post #34

Hot take: I think it’ll be pretty much the same as it was. If anything it will get better. You will still have gatekeepers and taste makers. Publishing houses will screen fiction for well-written and interesting fiction. Word-of-mouth, personal recommendations, and endorsements from people you respect will continue to outweigh algorithms, if you care. For cheap reads, how much of a difference is there between James P…

Publishing houses will screen fiction for well-written and interesting fiction.

Why would they start now?

Re: Pre-2022 Books

#102
post #34

Hot take: I think it’ll be pretty much the same as it was. If anything it will get better. You will still have gatekeepers and taste makers. Publishing houses will screen fiction for well-written and interesting fiction. Word-of-mouth, personal recommendations, and endorsements from people you respect will continue to outweigh algorithms, if you care. For cheap reads, how much of a difference is there between James P…

publishing houses will gatekeep for well-selling fiction and non-fiction.

Right, and half the time they can’t tell what could sell because their thinking is so provincial and rigid.

Re: Pre-2022 Books

#104

And there might be no way to prove you really wrote something Post-2022. I wrote a long article, all by hand. I never used any LLMs, even for searching. I checked it with a couple of AI detection tools and they confidently said that 60% of the article was written by AI.

How would you prove you wrote something prior to 2022?

Re: Pre-2022 Books

#105
It must be tiring, suffering from AI fear.

I just read things and decide if they're good or not. I did that ten years ago and I do it now and nothing has changed. Most things are bad, a few are good. That also has not changed.

Re: Pre-2022 Books

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post #99

Perhaps we need a 2022 version of this site https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappened2012.com/

I thought the Searches for "Second Job" infographic on the 2012 site was rather quaint, these days the term would be "Third Job" or even more

Re: Pre-2022 Books

#108
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, you're actually more likely to be flagged as AI if English is your second language.

That tracks with reality, as the majority of people don't have English as their first language. Depending on data sources used for training that could well reflect into AI detection tools.

I would also imagine the majority of people used to RLHF on AI could have English not as a first language. I have no expertise in this area, but I feel like the tuning at that phase would also affect the "voice", "tone", and "style" that gets put out.

Re: Pre-2022 Books

#109

I was browsing Amazon and I found one “author” with over 100 published in the last 12 months. And they weren’t cheap either. Most were $50 or more for the paperback version. It really put a sour taste in my mouth. At that volume (2 books per week) you’d think Amazon could identify and label that it’s AI generated.

Not sure why this got downvoted. The amount of book slop on Amazon these days is staggering. It has completely changed my experience of shopping for books on Amazon and it's for the worse.

Re: Pre-2022 Books

#110

And there might be no way to prove you really wrote something Post-2022. I wrote a long article, all by hand. I never used any LLMs, even for searching. I checked it with a couple of AI detection tools and they confidently said that 60% of the article was written by AI.

Yeah, I’m attempting to “solve” this with WriteTrack.dev as I think it’s the only reasonable approach we have going forwards.
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