As long as they are clearly marked as AI-generated, I can safely ignore it.
Oh, yeah, and also: Barnes and Noble is still in business?
There’s probably arleady a bunch on the shelves. This is good new for smaller indie bookstores.
Then I back no longer walking into a Barnes & Nobles and giving them my time or business.
I’ve got the archive for a better selection of books.
It was a greasy Thursday morning and the air smelled of Novocaine and Pepsi. Gary shifted in his seat to take the weight off of his ears.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Finally a book burning tradition I can support starting
the ethical option
The first book burning where 0 knowledge is lost.
So long as you steal the books - absolutely don’t give them a cent or we’re just supporting the industry.
Legit ethical question: since LLMs are trained on stolen knowledge and art, is stealing an AI book theft? Also, given the current US laws about how an AI “work” cannot be copyrighted, what’s to stop me from taking someone’s AI “book” and just slapping my name on the cover and reselling it?
Absolutely nothing stops you.
Thanks to AI, where no true creativity has gone into the process of writing, it has no inherent value nor creator - for all intents and purposes, it may as well have suddenly apparated into existence. As soon as it gets created, it’s an “early bird gets the worm” type situation of staking a claim to ownership. Like a car that suddenly manifested into the world, created by no man, made of no man’s materials - it’s a free-for-all.
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.
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.
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.
use AI quite a bit
shot quality
heh
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!
It’s funny that LLMs generally have stellar spelling and grammar, but LLM/AI assisted autocorrect, at least the version on the iPhone, is horribly inferior to standard autocorrect.
Now that I read what you said again, I think I just said the same thing with other words. But I’m so tired I’m just writing what I’m thinking and I should go to sleep, but I’m here writing what I’m thinking.
Anyway, I agree with you!
People can ask an AI summary of the AI book i guess XD
Grok, is this true?
Spent the past decade writing a novel, put so much effort on it. chances are that this bullshit will make it impossible for me to get it published
So this is how society crumbles. Not with a nuclear explosion. Not with war. But instead with brain crippling stupidity. This is the world we live in now. Book stores filled with romance novels about Romeo and Julie. Where the author writes a bit about biting the thumb, but it goes in a very literal, violent and bloody direction that’s supposed to be romantic.
Never thought I’d live to see the day where smart people AVOID reading books!
Every day we get a little closer to Idiocracy being real.
Oh, we’re way past “close”, much too deep in it.
When I worked at B&N way back in the day the policy was to sell any book that was legal to sell, though many would have to be ordered. In that regard, as long as AI slop is legal to sell I don’t have any particular problem with a store selling it.
I wouldn’t buy it, of course. It’s bound to be wretched.
Fine, just as long as they contain all of it in an “AI Slop” section.
Why would I pay money to purchase a genAI book when I could just have Copilot gen me one up at home!?
This right here.
no one but the most hopeless people think selling ai generated books is a good idea.
I back AI CEOs. Can’t do much worse.
