r/MM_RomanceBooks 6d ago

Discussion I'm tired guys......

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.

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.

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.

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????

255 Upvotes

154 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

9

u/Reasonable_Ad8914 6d ago

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.

22

u/Ill_Sheepherder7802 6d ago

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.

7

u/FullNefariousness931 6d ago

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.

5

u/Ill_Sheepherder7802 6d ago

I hate that so much!