Comment by ilrwbwrkhv 10 months ago Why is AI writing shunned? The book publishing industry needs to be badly disrupted. 12 comments ilrwbwrkhv Reply dpig_ 10 months ago Publishing an AI-written novel is about as thoughtful as a doctor sending you an LMGTFY link with your symptoms. trvrprkr 10 months ago > badly disruptedEmbracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind. ilrwbwrkhv 10 months ago why? ai writing is one of the few places where ai might actually be good. topic choice, inwriting, editing are also huge things. sarlalian 10 months ago I’m just going to borrow an excellent quote that applies here.“If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?” 1 reply → mystified5016 10 months ago Nobody wants to buy AI books. People who buy books would see an AI book as an outright scam. kazinator 10 months ago Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book. dontlaugh 10 months ago You want even more bad writing? Why?! theGeatZhopa 10 months ago one thing is disruption of the publishing industry, the other is taking monetazation possibiities off authors (despite the piggy-back bloodsuckers)so, how the AI writing will help the authors? Or, did you mean "authorship needs to be disrupted"? ilrwbwrkhv 10 months ago authors are already using ai. it needs to be more transparently sold __loam 10 months ago Because it's built off the labor of actual writers, which it displaced. The people who actually read books also hate this shit.
dpig_ 10 months ago Publishing an AI-written novel is about as thoughtful as a doctor sending you an LMGTFY link with your symptoms.
trvrprkr 10 months ago > badly disruptedEmbracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind. ilrwbwrkhv 10 months ago why? ai writing is one of the few places where ai might actually be good. topic choice, inwriting, editing are also huge things. sarlalian 10 months ago I’m just going to borrow an excellent quote that applies here.“If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?” 1 reply →
ilrwbwrkhv 10 months ago why? ai writing is one of the few places where ai might actually be good. topic choice, inwriting, editing are also huge things. sarlalian 10 months ago I’m just going to borrow an excellent quote that applies here.“If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?” 1 reply →
sarlalian 10 months ago I’m just going to borrow an excellent quote that applies here.“If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?” 1 reply →
mystified5016 10 months ago Nobody wants to buy AI books. People who buy books would see an AI book as an outright scam. kazinator 10 months ago Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book.
kazinator 10 months ago Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book.
theGeatZhopa 10 months ago one thing is disruption of the publishing industry, the other is taking monetazation possibiities off authors (despite the piggy-back bloodsuckers)so, how the AI writing will help the authors? Or, did you mean "authorship needs to be disrupted"? ilrwbwrkhv 10 months ago authors are already using ai. it needs to be more transparently sold
__loam 10 months ago Because it's built off the labor of actual writers, which it displaced. The people who actually read books also hate this shit.
Publishing an AI-written novel is about as thoughtful as a doctor sending you an LMGTFY link with your symptoms.
> badly disrupted
Embracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind.
why? ai writing is one of the few places where ai might actually be good. topic choice, inwriting, editing are also huge things.
I’m just going to borrow an excellent quote that applies here.
“If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?”
1 reply →
Nobody wants to buy AI books. People who buy books would see an AI book as an outright scam.
Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book.
You want even more bad writing? Why?!
one thing is disruption of the publishing industry, the other is taking monetazation possibiities off authors (despite the piggy-back bloodsuckers)
so, how the AI writing will help the authors? Or, did you mean "authorship needs to be disrupted"?
authors are already using ai. it needs to be more transparently sold
Because it's built off the labor of actual writers, which it displaced. The people who actually read books also hate this shit.