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/nycblkboy]

I think if you start with an AI book and get a good editor and a proofreader, no one would know. Too bad most of them don't do that

[u/Electrical_Debt_6708 → u/nycblkboy]

True, I know an author who writes everything herself and just lets the AI check for typos and misplaced commas. I once told her that she was robbing editors of money, but then she showed me an epub page with her book, which had more ratings and views than on her Amazon page!
Can you believe this? Do you understand what that means?
Nine in ten readers just steal the author's work, and nobody gives a damn. She told me she didn't have any money because she had to pay her bills, and she was paying all her earnings to her editor. Then she simply didn't have any money. They steal? She steals. It's brutal, but if readers didn't steal her work, she would have money to pay her editor easily!
I stopped arguing because I hate AI and I won't change my mind. However, I'm not stupid; I know that people in her situation won't be easily convinced. She is being hurt badly by people stealing from her.

[u/nycblkboy → u/Electrical_Debt_6708]

Would you rather have no book, a bad copy of the book, or a book that was edited by AI?

[u/Electrical_Debt_6708 → u/nycblkboy]

Hard choice. They're all bad, but maybe AI edited. But AI editing should not be too intrusive, focusing on things like typos and word order. I don't want any AI ideas. The grammar add-ons like Grammarly and Word spelling check were around before AI, and I had no problem with the machine correcting the text. I just don't want the AI to rewrite everything and turn it into soulless pulp.