Amazon and Goodreads must take steps to combat the flood of AI-generated content that will mislead readers and damage author reputations.
It’s a dynamic similar to telemarketers versus robocallers or spam. Bad books generated by humans have a cost in time and effort to create them, whereas ai-generated bad books have essentially no downside for whatever organization is pumping them out. Eliminating the barrier to entry of authoring a book also eliminates consequences for failure and as the cost to do a thing drops towards zero the frequency of that thing getting done will skyrocket. Eventually the signal to noise ratio becomes too poor and people simply reject the medium.
The theory of infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters and infinite time focuses on the production of the works and kinda ignores the poor bastards who have to read that shit.
Well, at some point, the issue will be addressed by Amazon. If it’s not possible to find good books anymore, they will loose money because people won’t by books from them anymore. If they don’t, someone will take the opportunity to make a « curated » platform.
It reminds me of the famous video games crash, when the stores were flooded by crappy games until Nintendo came with its « seal of quality ».
The main issue will be that independent authors will likely have a hard time to get an audience, since it’s likely that building a « curated » platform will ask entry fee to the authors.