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[–] kandykarter@lemmy.ca 43 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Honestly, I hope they do. It'd be funny to see the sales figures. I don't care how much anyone likes AI, but nobody wants to read AI novels.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Will they label which books are AI? No law says they have to. Now never can shop there ever again because can't trust the books.

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

People can ask an AI summary of the AI book i guess XD

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I use AI quite a bit, including writing stories where I have editorial control (that's a dumb decision, she does the other thing!). The best AIs might be able to manage one short passable chapter, but it's going to be shot quality without massive amounts of hand holding and rewriting.

It can be entertaining in a choose your own adventure sense where each page really only needs to be barely coherent and minimally cohesive with the other pages. I sure as hell wouldn't pay $25 for an AI-penned book.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

use AI quite a bit

shot quality

heh

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago

Hey well at least typos serve as a marker that everything is human written. You know, for all the comments about how AI is fancy autocorrect, why the hell is autocorrect still such fucking garbage??? Just do the things with the damn thing already!