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I see no problem with AI-generated books existing, but as is the case for any books it has to be possible to review them and evaluate their quality in the proper context.
I used to be a pretty active Goodreads librarian but that site has really gone downhill over the years. It had potential but it's been largely squandered. Been thinking of looking into Bookwyrm but I'm worried it's actually good and will suck all my free time away again.
It becomes a problem, if a) the market gets flooded with these things. Especially if they are pushed by a bot cartel and b) known, real author names are used, in order to increase the impact.
As long as their quality can be evaluated I don't see the problem here, people won't buy the crappy ones. That's the main reason why there's a problem with them reusing an existing author's name, it makes evaluating the quality harder.
It might help to imagine it as if it were a different product. Imagine if you went into a shop to buy a computer and there were thousands of different computers for sale. Some of them made by actual people and some made by AI. The shop doesn't test these computers so you might buy one that doesn't work, or is missing a vital component, or is just a case full of sand. Each one has reviews but they're all rated 5 stars with AI generated review text. What do you buy?
You can stop at this point, I wouldn't go to such a shop. Most people wouldn't.
Exactly
Idk, it sounded a lot like what Amazon is these days