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Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores
(www.the-independent.com)
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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.
I don't get why people think they can have a career as a LLM middleman.
If I wanted to read a book written by a plagiarism machine about a subject I want, I'll just ask it myself.
I don't need someone else to ask it to write a book.
Same for LLM movies, or music.
If Hollywood thinks it can fire all the creatives and just spam out LLM generated content, well, so can the audience...
It's like anything. I can cook my own food. That doesn't mean I don't go out to restaurants sometimes. I could use an LLM myself to write a novel. But it wouldn't be the same novel. And there is some skill in prompt writing. Even then, just the sheer time to generate a novel-length coherent work from small snippets of chat windows is still a large investment of time.
Yes, but also no. Plenty of people will buy and read these books and watch AI slop movies. Everyone can cook healthy meals at home, and many do, but there's still a big market for fast food restaurants and prepackaged microwave meals.
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.
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!
Your iPhone doesn't have to boil a lake to make those corrections slightly better, though.
I would rather read... anything else? It's not like we have a shortage of books and especially not bad books.
People can ask an AI summary of the AI book i guess XD
Grok, is this true?