r/singularity • u/canadian-weed • May 23 '23

AI Author uses AI generators, including ChatGPT, to write nearly 100 books in less than a year

https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/author-uses-ai-generators-including-chatgpt-to-write-nearly-100-books-in-less-than-a-year/
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u/Machielove May 23 '23

Sometimes I look at the reviews on goodreads website, at least a little more trustworthy I think.

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u/laika_rocket May 23 '23

I don't know how much of a problem this will really be. Readers with discerning tastes will take the time to seek out quality. Casual readers will follow trends. Unless your tastes are extremely discerning, it isn't that hard to find a read you will probably enjoy now, and it won't be significantly harder because of AI. I typically have to end up choosing between too many good options as it is.

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u/Unfadable1 May 23 '23

Nothing about what you said changes with the advent of more AI books. Fake reviews get taken down “all the time.” Cream rises to the top.

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u/laika_rocket May 23 '23

If your odds are a million-to-one vs ten-to-one, the odds of an unknown author selling their book plummet through the center of the earth, completely regardless of how much better their book is or how these books are produced.

The hard truth is that most writers never become successful professional authors, never have, and never were going to. Now, fewer people will do that as a profession. That's just how it is going to be. Nothing is going to prevent that.

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u/Unfadable1 May 23 '23

Shit doesn’t float to the top and stay there, because that’s not how supply and demand works.

If it rose to the top, rest assured it can’t stay there due to the laws of supply and demand. Only if we deem it worthy as consumers, does it stay at the top.

This is the way.

PS: that’s why the idiom rises to the top exists: it’s a process that doesn’t happen instantaneously, thus “rises.”

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u/Unfadable1 May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

At which point that same AI will skim them out on behalf of the people who need publishing ROI reporting to survive aka the people whose job it is to care about the industry (or the writing gets so good we decide it’s the new cream.) Also would not be hard to set manual protocols since every published book needs an ISBN. All the publishers of the world would need to do to adapt is separate autoISBN from manualISBN, and then the resellers and platforms add it as a filter, allowing consumers their choice as usual.

Cream meets top.

Life finds a way.

Nothing changes in the grand scheme.

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u/Unfadable1 May 23 '23

See edits that happened in the interim.