Why the fuck would anyone buy an AI generated book instead of… Generating their own? If they generate it they even get to change the story on the fly, a printed out AI book is like the worst lmao
There are jurisdictions where AI content can’t be copyrighted. I don’t see how an AI-written book could even exist in those places, since anyone could post it online for anyone to read.
Effectively China is the only major market where AI generated outputs are granted copyright. And even then, it’s a hard maybe. This makes zero sense to me as a business move.
Now to fuck up their plan by training their AI on House of Leaves.
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?
As long as they are clearly marked as AI-generated
As clearly labeled as all the food products are?
They will not label them properly because that won’t sell; if they happen to be labeling now, they will stop in the future. This is the entire “vote with your wallet” strategy they know they have control over since they will obfuscate all the valuable information we need to make informed decisions.
The one near me has a large kids section and a number of events for kids. They also have a coffee shop and pleasant reading area. I think they still also sell books.
Yeah B&N is still expanding AFAIK
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.
There’s probably arleady a bunch on the shelves. This is good new for smaller indie bookstores.
Finally a book burning tradition I can support starting
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.
the ethical option
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 would rather read… anything else? It’s not like we have a shortage of books and especially not bad books.
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…
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.
Yeah, this is a major issue across the board. For a wide variety of products, if they clearly marked which were AI generated, then the sales would likely speak for themselves.
But companies don’t really want to do this. They want to mix AI slop in with regular products, so that over time, the average consumer dumbs down enough to no longer know the difference. Then they just generate every product ever and number go up.
This still ignores the fact that no one will have money to put into the system from the bottom (which is the only way it flows in an economy), but here we are.
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?
WHAT THE FUCK.
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.
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.
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
Fine, just as long as they contain all of it in an “AI Slop” section.
