Charts show sharp post-ChatGPT rises in creative and scientific output with weekly Amazon English e-book releases reaching 292,000 and quarterly arXiv submissions hitting 77,621 as AI music uploads overtake non-AI tracks

Creating is becoming easier. Getting people's attention is getting harder.

The impact of AI in four charts

@marcportermagee @rpondiscio Do we know anything about the quality of this increased output?

@lennysan when the haystack scales to a mountain, the only way to get recognition is to pay $$$$ to get your needle to be found; nothing is "organic": https://open.spotify.com/track/6xDlGP5MtaZ6XDnYnbt6Is?si=2ad5ef2c294a4fe2

@marcportermagee Any stats on the success rates of those self-represented suits?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/20/data-shows-that-ai-slop-is-taking-over-books-lawsuits-music-science/

@marcportermagee I bet a lot of this "more" is "more slop", with some gems in between

@mrpredict69 @lennysan That’s why I love the daily newsletter model. 5-10 minutes, every morning.

@lennysan AI makes it easy to flood the timeline with similar content, leading to massive audience fatigue.

Pushing harder on distribution does not fix boring content.

Attention naturally flows to those who use AI to create something genuinely fresh and unique.

@lennysan @kendallbaker And keeping it for long periods of time nearly impossible.

@marcportermagee The replication crisis intensifies.

@lennysan This is exact reason I am running 100s of agents doing marketing for my SaaS entirely on autopilot. Its a superpower.

@marcportermagee @fentasyl Even if you have a lawyer it’s useful to have the AI explains things to you.

And grok walked me through my successful small claim.

@lennysan Quality, quality, quality

@marcportermagee Domains also

, people are building https://hjalli.com/posts/building-for-an-audience-of-one/ https://www.dnib.com/articles/the-domain-name-industry-brief-q1-2026

@marcportermagee

I do think we are at a moment where generating content is easier / faster than ever, but the workflows to continually improve quality have not quite caught up.

I'm hopeful the quality will improve, will be interesting to see how we deal with velocity and quality control in the coming years.

@marcportermagee @vxel So far it's been mostly garbage. Got it.

@marcportermagee its just devaluing creative work

@marcportermagee @reidhoffman Well it's a two edged sword, self presented lawsuits can go very wrong. More scientific studies from individuals? More people can get self education faster and easier? That's a major win for the poor and displaced that society fails to provide ein any other way. U can't ignore it