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Users criticize the surge of AI-generated e-books on Amazon as low-quality 'slop' that erodes trust and cultural standards after receiving unwanted examples as gifts or purchases.
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@Duderichy infinite supply side explosion (but who is reading these? are they impacting culture? have you actually been recommended one?) same question on AI text and music - yes, people are making it but it's basically the same as webspam (people encounter it but it doesn't really matter)
@Duderichy People sell get rich quick courses encouraging others to self publish AI-generated books
@Duderichy Here's a table from the paper including review counts. Seems they have fewer reviews per book, but they're still a non-trivial fraction of total reviews, and some of lower avg reviews could be due more recent average publication of the AI ones. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34777/w34777.pdf
@Duderichy Great. Now let's look at the proportion of AI- and human-generated books people actually read.
@Duderichy don’t believe that the non-AI has stayed constant; what’s the sourcing of this data
@Duderichy People don't care who or what makes content. People just consume.
@Duderichy My mum gave me an AI slop book for my birthday, presumably from Amazon too... Why don't people have media literacy, it's so easy to spot
@Duderichy Are people reading the AI-generated books? Do they like them?
@AdamSinger @Duderichy ai slop books for children are funny, i forgot who but some big account on here accidentally bought one. they're definitely impacting culture because they make money. like all ai, mostly by lowering trust