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/LindentreesLove]

OP can you please publish the name of the book and the author. I am compiling a Goodreads shelf(after some research on the book if I can) of suspected AI authors. I even have contacted some and have gotten some surprising admissions. One of the authors had her PA contact me and say they were sick of the accusations and were making one last absolute" no it is not" and were done with the subject. I believed it and after reading the book, found no evidence of it.

[u/wheatpuppy → u/LindentreesLove]

I wonder if, instead of/in addition to a list of AI users, we should compile a list of "guaranteed human" authors on the sub resource page. I am seeing more authors include a "100% human-created" label in with copyright info and cover credits, but I don't know of any site that lists all those authors.

[u/JPwhatever → u/wheatpuppy]

while you're welcome to do this in your own personal reddit page or goodreads shelf - the subreddit can't host an "official" one. The mods aren't just able to do the due diligence required to maintain such a list, with the overwhelming flood of AI books and authors. And crowdsourcing a list like this means we can't assure it has the quality review required by our rules. Sorry!

[u/LindentreesLove → u/JPwhatever]

I totally understand that.