Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop

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Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop
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The proliferation of generative AI in the world of publishing is not just a threat to the industry, but to readers who love stories.

Here’s a test for you: Visit Amazon or any other site selling books, search for a random title, and see how long it takes for an obviously AI-generated entry to appear. Browse the recommended titles under a real book, and the chances are you’ll still be barraged by ones with Midjourney covers that all bear the same uncanny sheen of AI artwork.

More and more authors are finding their work being pilfered or weirdly duplicated by AI on platforms like Amazon. Writer Marie Arana, a 500+ page nonfiction piece she spent many years researching, a ton of titles popped up the very next day that were clearly related to her work. “Right below the cover of my book was another cover, and the cover said ‘America’s Largest And Least Understood Minority.’ And then it said ‘A Summary Of Latinoland’.

And then, of course, there’s the more intellectual threat posed by AI. Various apps and AI platforms are now pushing summary options. Why bother reading that pesky book when a computer can give you the bullet point version instead?on being a way to make books easier to read by dumbing down prose and ideas, and occasionally whitewashing historical content.

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