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Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI

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Re: Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI

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Post by musicale »

ftxbro wrote: post #2

Maybe it means books weren't all that important and they should indeed have been blog posts all along, like on substack. For example as Sam Bankman-Fried has said: "I think, if you wrote a book, you f---ed up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post."

Nice one. Username checks out. ;-)

Though I have read a few non-fiction books that probably could have been condensed into a single chapter. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of a market for mini-books like that.

For that matter, I've also read fantasy novels that were longer than the entire Lord of the Rings and might have been better as a shorter novella.

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Post by treeman79 »

jimmygrapes wrote: post #4

It has felt this way to me for years now, really. Somewhere in the last decade or so the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. Not just in the hipster contrarian sense of "popular therefore bad" but also the lists of books touted as "critics adore this obscure gem" and crowd-sourced "most read/reviewed" and all in between. Certainly a few standouts here and t…

LitRPG category suffers a lot from this. A number of good series. Then tons of ones that are basically. I wake up in a new world. I punched a rabbit. I gained a level. I walk 10 feet. Walking got a skill level. Oh good I got that walking level just in time to not die to a snake. I gain a level in poison resist. … I punched a a dragon and gained a level. Oh crap, umm a plot. Yeah. Let’s add one in last chapter so there is some reason to have a sequel.

That’ll be 15 dollars for Audible download.

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Post by jimmygrapes »

treeman79 wrote: post #12
jimmygrapes wrote: post #4

It has felt this way to me for years now, really. Somewhere in the last decade or so the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. Not just in the hipster contrarian sense of "popular therefore bad" but also the lists of books touted as "critics adore this obscure gem" and crowd-sourced "most read/reviewed" and all in between. Certainly a few standouts here and t…

LitRPG category suffers a lot from this. A number of good series. Then tons of ones that are basically. I wake up in a new world. I punched a rabbit. I gained a level. I walk 10 feet. Walking got a skill level. Oh good I got that walking level just in time to not die to a snake. I gain a level in poison resist. … I punched a a dragon and gained a level. Oh crap, umm a plot. Yeah. Let’s add one in last chapter so ther…

"Book One of the Neverlander Dimitrium War Quintology"

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Post by two_in_one »

jimmygrapes wrote: post #4

It has felt this way to me for years now, really. Somewhere in the last decade or so the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. Not just in the hipster contrarian sense of "popular therefore bad" but also the lists of books touted as "critics adore this obscure gem" and crowd-sourced "most read/reviewed" and all in between. Certainly a few standouts here and t…

I'm watching old movies for the same reason.

With the latest flood of look alikes I think we can save our time by just using AI to summarize.

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Post by theage »

This is DAY ONE of the content explosion. People will soon learn they can skip the middlemen and generate yourself any niche theme at all. The story gen a.i. are only going to get better day by day.

If you must have new published books (allegedly human authored, edited, and curated for cultural relevancy) you will almost have to use your own a.i. anyway. You'll need to trust it to summarize the work or "human" reviews, detect/fix repulsive flaws, and get/generate any recommendations according to your satisfaction.

Re: Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI

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Post by strix_varius »

treeman79 wrote: post #12
jimmygrapes wrote: post #4

It has felt this way to me for years now, really. Somewhere in the last decade or so the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. Not just in the hipster contrarian sense of "popular therefore bad" but also the lists of books touted as "critics adore this obscure gem" and crowd-sourced "most read/reviewed" and all in between. Certainly a few standouts here and t…

LitRPG category suffers a lot from this. A number of good series. Then tons of ones that are basically. I wake up in a new world. I punched a rabbit. I gained a level. I walk 10 feet. Walking got a skill level. Oh good I got that walking level just in time to not die to a snake. I gain a level in poison resist. … I punched a a dragon and gained a level. Oh crap, umm a plot. Yeah. Let’s add one in last chapter so ther…

Which do you consider to be among the good series?

(I have read and enjoyed a couple of LitRPGs)

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Post by chucky_z »

strix_varius wrote: post #17
treeman79 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LitRPG category suffers a lot from this. A number of good series. Then tons of ones that are basically. I wake up in a new world. I punched a rabbit. I gained a level. I walk 10 feet. Walking got a skill level. Oh good I got that walking level just in time to not die to a snake. I gain a level in poison resist. … I punched a a dragon and gained a level. Oh crap, umm a plot. Yeah. Let’s add one in last chapter so ther…

Which do you consider to be among the good series? (I have read and enjoyed a couple of LitRPGs)

There’s a clear best series (if you can handle the off color comedy) — Dungeon Crawler Carl

Re: Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI

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Post by briga »

One day an AI will write a brilliant book. It will write something as good as the most competent and insightful human writer out there. And it will write a thousand more. The problem is that for every good book there will be a thousand bad books. What good is a good book if no one has time to discover it and read it? No one has time to get through all the good books written by humans, why are we worried about books written by AI?

Since the Gutenberg days there has never been a shortage of written material to be digested. For hundreds of years there has been way more written material than any one person could read in a lifetime. So the problem has been to pick out what is most worth reading out of the millions of books you could be reading instead. The situation now is no different, except that we should have stricter standards on what information we allow into our heads. There will always be value in a well-curated library (will AIs curate the libraries too?)

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