• GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Here’s how I feel about AI books (and almost all AI art): If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it? Good art is idiosyncratic, not the amalgamation of all previously existing art.

  • Dazawassa@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    The “If not already.” Gets me. It’s been like this even before now. Even before AI people would just cut and paste the same book over and over and price hike regardless of quality. So this has probably been a thing since the initial openAI demos.

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      1 year ago

      There were threads on Reddit also showing technical books on Amazon with “As an AI language model” at the start of random chapters.

  • StudioLE@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I don’t think it makes a difference. An author friend of mine used to say that 1000 books are written for every one that is published. By now I imagine it’s at least 10x that.

    Nothing will particularly change in how publishing houses handle things, sure the print on demand services will increase but is anyone really reading them anyway?

  • 𝕊𝕚𝕤𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕟@programming.devOPM
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    1 year ago

    I’m not against AI-generated content in general. Content is content, it doesn’t matter if it was written by a human or a machine if it’s useful or entertaining.

    I know this project is just a fun prototype, but I’m sure it will be used to generate low-quality filler garbage which will then be sold at prices similar to high-quality books written by humans. That feels obviously wrong to me.