← Back to context Comment by ilrwbwrkhv 1 year ago Why is AI writing shunned? The book publishing industry needs to be badly disrupted. 12 comments ilrwbwrkhv Reply dpig_ 1 year ago Publishing an AI-written novel is about as thoughtful as a doctor sending you an LMGTFY link with your symptoms. trvrprkr 1 year ago > badly disruptedEmbracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind. ilrwbwrkhv 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Nobody wants to buy AI books. People who buy books would see an AI book as an outright scam. kazinator 1 year ago Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book. dontlaugh 1 year ago You want even more bad writing? Why?! theGeatZhopa 1 year 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 1 year ago authors are already using ai. it needs to be more transparently sold __loam 1 year 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_ 1 year ago Publishing an AI-written novel is about as thoughtful as a doctor sending you an LMGTFY link with your symptoms.
trvrprkr 1 year ago > badly disruptedEmbracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind. ilrwbwrkhv 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Nobody wants to buy AI books. People who buy books would see an AI book as an outright scam. kazinator 1 year ago Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book.
kazinator 1 year ago Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book.
theGeatZhopa 1 year 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 1 year ago authors are already using ai. it needs to be more transparently sold
__loam 1 year 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.