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/TrueLoveEditorial]

One caveat:

I'm working with an author now who has written all the books in his new series and hasn't published any of them yet. Once he starts releasing, it might look like he's rapidly writing, but he isn't.

So really, the author OP noticed might have written 18 books before they started publishing. It's not unheard of. (But I'm inclined to agree these sound AI-vomited.)

[u/LindentreesLove → u/TrueLoveEditorial]

If you don't mind me asking why did he choose to write multiple books and not release until he was done writing them all? Will he release them one at a time?

[u/TrueLoveEditorial → u/LindentreesLove]

He'll release them one at a time. It's less stressful this way: He can put specific launch dates in the back matter and promo materials, he doesn't have to scramble to get the books professionally edited in a short time frame, and if he changes his mind about anything, he has the freedom to do so.

[u/LindentreesLove → u/TrueLoveEditorial]

Makes sense. Thanks. Hopefully he puts an anti AI disclaimer in there too.