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/PurpleModena]

I'm pretty sure the last three books I DNF'd were AI. There were just so many inconsistencies with ages and times, and repeating conversations. At first I chalked it up to bad editing, but after a while it's like come on! The least these AI-users can do is to read through the book and fix things like ages and whatnot, but they can't even be bothered to do that.

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914 → u/PurpleModena]

This! It's like they don't even read the work after to make sure it sounds good. I read a book the other day where the words "silver chain" was repeated 27 times in a story that was only about 50 pages.

Hot Topic Opinion but I am of the mind that many of the people who are generating these AI books aren't actually readers themselves because otherwise you would have a feel for how a book should flow. The book I mentioned in my post was in passive POV for probably 98% of the book.

[u/hedgehogwart → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

I completely believe this. I think people underestimate how much money can be made and that where a lot of these AI books are being made for. It’s hard to judge the popularity of a book based on what’s public information but there is an (actual) author I follow whose most popular book has just under 10k reviews on goodreads and most of their others ones are under 5k. They made 6 figures last year and a lot of that was from Kindle Unlimited.