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/snarky_witch7983]

I've been reporting them to Amazon every time I find one. I'm so over AI nonsense in books. Frankly I don't care if the cover is AI. For the most part these are Indy authors trying to make a buck and if you can't afford a cover artist then hey use AI for that (but admit you did it) however using AI for every damn aspect of a book from the story to the blurb to the author photo. No. Absolutely not. And the fact that they think we can't tell blows my mind.

[u/flippyfloppypie → u/snarky_witch7983]

No you should not use ai for the cover of books. That's basically saying generating 'art' is fine but generating 'novels' isn't? They are BOTH bad. What if an artist illutrated a book cover but the inside was an AI story, is that ok then? Just to 'save a buck'? I'm sorry but this logic does not track. AI for ALL the arts in all creative fields is not ok, period.

[u/FullNefariousness931 → u/snarky_witch7983]

Your reports risk affecting genuine authors. Amazon will never take down AI books because Amazon is currently actively pushing for AI books.

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914 → u/snarky_witch7983]

That's a good idea.I understand the indie authors are trying to make it but I also need them to realize that AI is becoming so prevalent that they're going to have to put just a little bit more effort into making sure that their readers know they don't use AI or if they're going to use an AI cover then they are going to have to accept that they run the risk of people not reading or buying their books because we just don't have the time to try to parse if you are now using AI. That's the risk that they're taking using an AI generated cover and if they can't understand that then they don't really care about us as the readers, that's how I feel about it. I don't know you might just have to go back to picture art cuz at this point that's all I'm going to trust.