edit the question to: “How much do you care”
I love reading and am always on the hunt for a new book.
I’ve noticed an uptick in AI-generated books on Amazon. Often the AI books lack plot or experience of being human that leads to them reading as very machine-like. The author pages sometimes have AI generated photos too.
Oversaturation of this kind of content makes finding high quality, and human-authored text (which has more depth in my opinion) really hard. It’s also so frustrating for me because writing a book used to be a way to proclaim some sort of authority in storytelling, or if it’s non-fiction, a specific subject. Now, that hard work of creating authority is being shrunk down into some well-constructed prompts.
What are your thoughts on what finding books to read in the future will be like?
Do you care if a book is human authored or AI-created?
To what lengths do/would you go to find high quality reading by a human?
This is absolutely a question being asked by a marketing firm, or a consultancy group. Look at all of the follow up questions being asked in the replies:
if books by humans cost 5-10x more than books written by AI in conjunction with humans, would you still buy the human books?
Would it make you pickier when you choose books?
Which genres do you find human authorship matters the most to you as a reader?
To what lengths would you go to find high-quality writing by a human?
Has the influx of AI writing changed the way you read or find books in any way?
Would you manage this situation by generally being more wary of books post-2022?
Is there a way you hope human authors will truly certify to their readership the human authenticity of their work?
It’s just some company trying to figure out if they can justify publishing AI-regurgitated shite in the future.