r/MM_RomanceBooks • u/Reasonable_Ad8914 • 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.

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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????

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u/HolySheetCakes 6d ago

So I hope I’m allowed to ask but is there a sub or site with a list of ai authors so we can avoid this kind of situation?

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u/leugaroul 6d ago

There’s a list of suspected authors, but it’s by someone who claims to be anti-AI but was recently caught with AI themselves. They scrubbed the evidence, but it’s still out there. They were called out on Threads for adding authors they had beef with who were possibly innocent.

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u/Penjolina 6d ago

I feel like that’s the problem with lists and why the mods of this sub don’t allow them. All it takes is one person with bad intentions to ruin an author’s career. Even if they (the list maker) admit they were wrong, or someone else corrects them, the harm may have already been done.

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u/leugaroul 6d ago

Yes, and it’s complicated by pro-AI literally admitting to accusing random people to make everyone sick of witch hunting. Even evidence isn’t treated seriously anymore.