Books

Perhaps, but often best sellers are trash in various readers opinions. If you are searching out smaller authors because you believe they write better books you will come across a lot of AI.

As one of those who believe best sellers are generally trash, there are a much larger number of small authors who are even worse than any best seller. Still I search them out because the tiny minority who write gems. (again the is my subjective opinion)

Never say never. A lot of popular books in more pulpy genres like romance or mystery are already incredibly formulaic. It wouldn't be too outlandish for some publisher to just feed in a massive corpus of genre fiction into an LLM and plop out dozens of books indistinguishable from those written by people.

They're not my cup of tea, but they keep landing on bestseller lists because people like what they like.

I'm assuming we are also going to eventually get to a point where large publishers are just going to start using AI reviewers to give books written by human authors a once-over to suggest "improvements" that could make the book more marketable or consumable.

Independently published works are going to eventually be the only way going forward.

They don't have to, but they can have it copyrighted and only hand it out to people they want to effectively sowing doubt in any book that lacks it.

This is a great tactic to drive Author's Guild membership.

Yeah, I was just thinking "So they're going to force the authors to always write on a video feed like school children to 'prove' they aren't cheating? Uh huh..."

Maybe they should make a label assuring us the author isn't a bigot, hasn't committed any hate or sex crimes, and that they exclusively have "the right" opinions?

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