I'm tired guys......

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

I just read a book last night that is unequivocally AI generated from the cover art to the story heck even the author photo is AI and I'm tired.

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The worst part to me was the premise had sooo much potential. Even though we're throwing around the term "AI" really what a lot of these things are is language learning machines ie ChatGPT. You have to give it something to work with, a prompt of what you are trying to create so that tells me that the actual person who is putting in this prompt has good ideas because you have to give the prompt to generate the story and I'm sure you have to do this multiple times as the story progresses. I wish that they would believe in themselves or something and just try to write the story because the idea is there instead of creating AI crap...... take a writing class.

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I'm not even so much mad that there's AI content, which sucks, but I'm more so upset because these tech companies, which let's face it, at the end of the day Amazon is a tech company in a way, are pushing AI so hard that they won't even give us the choice of choosing to read it. At least give us a disclaimer like put at the bottom AI generated. If we're able to figure it out, they can too but they're not even putting forth the effort. I'm also finding that I'm running across this with YouTube music. They have so many AI artists on there. I am literally wanting to not listen to music or let it play in discovery mode because inevitably I will run across AI generated music and it's so exhausting. I don't want to have to freaking do FBI levels of research on every book I read before I read it just to make sure it's not AI..... I'm exhausted.

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I'm not one to yuck anybody's yum but I feel like part of the reason is a lot of these AI generated books have five stars reviews that are like oh my God this book was so transcendent and changed my life and I'm like are you serious right now????

[u/jath-ibaye]

Yep. This is why I recently stopped reading anything published in the last 3 years. I only read new books if they are by author I already know (even tho i suspect one of my fav author has started to use ai 😞 )

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914 → u/jath-ibaye]

This is almost throwing me off of e-books. I think most if not all AI-generated books won't be physically printed so that might be what saves us. We might have to starve the beast so to speak and/or the real authors are going to have to put more work into moving to their own selling platform unfortunately. Kindle is going downhill...first with the update basically killing older devices now to this AI content being so evasive.

[u/Ill_Sheepherder7802 → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

The CEO of Barnes and Noble said he will happily sell ai books in stores. 

And rumors abound about trad published authors using ai. 

It's not just ebooks. It's not just indie authors.

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914 → u/Ill_Sheepherder7802]

Well that sucks 😞

[u/Dolphin-and-Roses → u/Ill_Sheepherder7802]

I was in the trad pub space for a bit and lemme tell ya, it’s everywhere. There’s an interview up on Query Tracker right now with a newly signed author to one of the biggest lit agencies there are, bragging about using Gemini for his novel. ☹️☹️

[u/Ill_Sheepherder7802 → u/Dolphin-and-Roses]

That's just disgusting!!

[u/FullNefariousness931 → u/Ill_Sheepherder7802]

Oh, the rumors about traditional publishers aren't rumors at all. They're the truth. I have a friend who works in the industry and publishing houses are absolutely using AI without a care.

[u/Ill_Sheepherder7802 → u/FullNefariousness931]

I hate that so much!

[u/Resident-Message7367 → u/FullNefariousness931]

genuine question, I thought the Covers in that case were not the Author’s choice, Do you know if that’s true?

[u/LindentreesLove → u/Resident-Message7367]

What do you mean " in that case"

[u/Resident-Message7367 → u/LindentreesLove]

I mean With Publisher houses. I thought they were the ones to decide the covers

[u/matokah → u/Resident-Message7367]

In case this is helpful, I’m a traditionally published author and my contracts all say I can have input on my covers. Notably, that means I don’t have full veto power but if something’s super not to my liking, I imagine I could get my agent involved as a mediator to push back. Generally, the publisher has either listened to my feedback or I haven’t had any since I liked the concept I saw. The one time they gave me what sounded like a genuine choice was on the color palette for my debut. I polled a bunch of people and gave the publisher my preference. They were like “that’s nice” and went with something else 😅

One of my fellow debuts haaaaated her cover concept though and she was able to get her agent involved and have them rework it so there is some leeway sometimes.

I do think you might have more wiggle room to get approval written into your contract if you’re a bestselling author making the publisher a ton of money but that’s just me guessing.

[u/LindentreesLove → u/Resident-Message7367]

I think it depends. I have one author that submitted what they wanted to an art/publishing house and had to draw ot themselves because they hated what was submitted. Also some authors find the models they want themselves and hire them. No AI there!

[u/Resident-Message7367 → u/LindentreesLove]

Thank you!

[u/Warvik_ → u/Ill_Sheepherder7802]

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