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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 ChatGTP »

two_in_one wrote: post #15
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.

Same, I find myself defaulting to older movies and content a lot more.

Seems like there was a golden age and relatability to movies that was lost at some stage.

Same for music, there is technically good music happening. But I find the reliability and warmth harder to come by.

My room mates were watching these insanely CGI heavy action films about 5-10 years back and cheering. I could never get it .

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

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Post by two_in_one »

ChatGTP wrote: post #21
two_in_one wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same, I find myself defaulting to older movies and content a lot more. Seems like there was a golden age and relatability to movies that was lost at some stage. Same for music, there is technically good music happening. But I find the reliability and warmth harder to come by. My room mates were watching these insanely CGI heavy action films about 5-10 years back and cheering. I could never get it .

Avatar was cool. Heavy CGI looked fantastic at first. But then it became an often overused commodity. Still there are movies I like. Mostly well made sci-fi for kids. Avatar2 is not in the list.

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

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Post by frob »

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."

I cannot tell if I'm the victim of Poe's law right now. If this is satire, it is brilliant. If it's not, I highly suggest taking a long hard look in the mirror.

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

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Post by jacksonkmarley »

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 would also add that even the odd writer with a great early book or books commonly slumps down to meh and then churns it out from there on, which is sad.

It's like the fiction publishing industry had this technology for 10-20 years already.

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

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Post by chii »

NBJack wrote: post #13

Spotify is facing a similar crisis. AI generated songs being listened to by bots, presumably to generate money. https://cointelegraph.com/news/spotify-reportedly-deletes-th...

if the song is being listened to, and thus generate money, is there any real reason for removing them?

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Post by sjs7007 »

chii wrote: post #26
NBJack wrote: post #13

Spotify is facing a similar crisis. AI generated songs being listened to by bots, presumably to generate money. https://cointelegraph.com/news/spotify-reportedly-deletes-th...

if the song is being listened to, and thus generate money, is there any real reason for removing them?

It's being listened to by bots on loop instead of multiple user accounts. So effectively revenue/user is going down with this I'd guess.

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Post by tetris11 »

briga wrote: post #20

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 w…

Who will curate though. Before the internet you'd read a book based on a recommendation from a friend, a sibling, a trusted figure. Now, in this increasingly isolating world, we get recommendations from small subreddits, maybe a HN post, and of course the subconscious prompting of adverts that seep through our filters.

An AI could be the writer and recommender in all those modern scenarios. Will this mean we revert back to listening to our friends and family over online opinion? Probably not, because they're no less exposed than we are to online recomendation creep.

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

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Post by xcdzvyn »

chii wrote: post #26
NBJack wrote: post #13

Spotify is facing a similar crisis. AI generated songs being listened to by bots, presumably to generate money. https://cointelegraph.com/news/spotify-reportedly-deletes-th...

if the song is being listened to, and thus generate money, is there any real reason for removing them?

Not for as long as advertisers are onboard, which wouldn't be very long if they don't curb it.

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

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Post by quantified »

jasfi wrote: post #22

What matters if that if they aren't very good, or contain glaring mistakes, they will receive really bad ratings.

The GPT-generated ratings will be flattering and numerous.

I suppose some ratings bots will be deployed negatively. Really good negative reviews could be entertaining.

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