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Gee, I sure hope people don't just lie about it...


It doesn’t matter. It’s garbage content and immediately recognizable as being AI generated.

It is absolutely possible to write a good article or even a good book with AI, but at least for now it’s just as hard, if not harder, than doing it without AI.

But of course people trying to make a quick buck won’t put in the required effort, and they likely don’t even have the ability to create great or even good content.


> It’s garbage content and immediately recognizable as being AI generated.

It's also recognizable by its sheer volume. An "author" who submits several new books every day is clearly not doing their own writing. The AI publishing scam relies on volume -- they can't possibly win on quality, but they're hoping to make up for that by putting so many garbage books on the market that buyers can't find anything else.


I'm not sure. Ghostwriting exists, and a person (or organization) with enough money could easily pay enough ghostwriters to output at a more than human pace.


Even at their most prolific, a ghostwritten author still probably wouldn't publish more than one or two books a month. Beyond that point, you're just competing with yourself. (For instance, young adult series like Goosebumps, The Baby-Sitters Club, or Animorphs typically published a book every month or two.)

Publishing multiple books per day is out of the question. That's beyond even what's reasonable for an editor to skim through and rubber-stamp.


> It doesn’t matter. It’s garbage content and immediately recognizable as being AI generated.

Is it? How do you immediately recognize a book as AI generated before buying it, if the author isn't doing something silly like releasing several books per day/month? And even after you buy a book, how can you distinguish between the book just being terrible and the book being written with extensive use of AI? I don't believe AI can write good books, but I would still like to distinguish those two cases, since the former is just a terrible book, which is perfectly fine, while the latter I would like to avoid. I don't want to waste my limited time reading AI content.


>It is absolutely possible to write a good article or even a good book with AI, but at least for now it’s just as hard, if not harder, than doing it without AI.

How hard is it though, to create a shitty book with AI, that Amazon can't detect was written with AI?


> It’s garbage content and immediately recognizable as being AI generated.

Yea, but the Turning Test is actively being assaulted. Soon we won't know the difference between an uninspired book written by an AI and an uninspired book written by a human.




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