Online discussion splits over author culpability and AI book quality
2 Sep 18 8:33 PM · 8d ago · 2 posts · 4 comments · 2 sources · development 2 of 2
Readers and writers engage in Reddit debate about whether authors deserve sympathy. Critics argue that if AI can steal readers, the real issue is that authors have been producing generic work; defenders contend that even bad books reflect human effort and that training scraping violates authors' rights.
“If AI can steal your readers, I don't have much sympathy for you. AI books are so bad, but then again so are a lot human made books.”
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I see my colleagues watching AI slop on Instagram during the breaks. Mind boggling. A particular fact comes to mind: while reading ability has absolutely plummeted over the past decade in America, that is mostly caused by the worst readers. Maybe bottom 50%. But: the best readers are virtually unaffected by this trend. They read just as well as…
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https://www. booksns.com/227788/ The Rise of Parasite Authors First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers. # books The Rise of Parasite Authors First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers. by ubcstaffer123
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AI is great at a ton of things. The problem isn't so much the AI, it's the fact that capitalism is a system where people will do anything to make a buck. This beause if you don't have a buck, you don't have housing, clothing, food, or any freedom (as much freedom as you can have in this awful system anyway). I've used AI for a number of small…
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it's despicable but sadly the readers mass consuming fanfic just don't care anylonger. and in that regard they aparently never cared before. for them ff is free so it doesn't matter if AI writes it. the sad parts is how they treat original writers with their typos and odd sentences because they are someone not native to the english language…
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No, absolutely. Not a stupid analogy at all. I've been writing fanfiction for 20+ years, and it's been heartbreaking both to see these recent changes, and especially to see new and/or young fans posting into the void and wondering what they're doing wrong. With the recent drop in internet civility, the rise in leftist infighting, and genAI, and…
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Going to get me hugely downvoted here but whatever: If AI can steal your readers, I don't have much sympathy for you. AI books are so bad, but then again so are a lot human made books. Many authors literally have purposely made their writings as generic and "mass produced" as possible and many readers are looking for basically the same thing over…
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I like to write for fun and to wind down before bed. I used to upload my stuff to royal road, but found my first book uploaded to a Chinese based site, and then every time I uploaded a chapter it would get 50 odd views in the first second and then it would slow to a trickle. It was just so clear it's just bots scraping every upload for training…
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If you're buying fiction, you're ultimately paying for the efforts of the creative mind who did it. An LLM has no creativity, the best it can do is take the canned creativity humans provided, put it in a blender and then shit out a mish-mash of that and call it a story. Anything without sapience and actual creativity can never write anything…
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A shitty book is a shitty book. At least if it were made by AI I am not disgusted with the produce of my fellow man. Horrors perpetrated by one ant colony against another don't make me depressed about the world, but horrors perpetrated by humans against each other could.
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I'd rather a shitty book made by a human author than by a machine. At least the human author put some effort in, even if it's miniscule amount.
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Why not use sites other than Amazon? Other booksellers and surely authors themselves have or must have their own more reliable newsletters.
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