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as the beginning of the article says: it all depends on what qualifies as a book if you're including epub novels, that have never had a print done... then yeah

by y4mi 2y ago

as the beginning of the article says: it all depends on what qualifies as a book if you're including epub novels, that have never had a print done... then yeah, at least is gonna be the operating word, likely multiple times considering just how many fiction books are being produced on webnovel sites and then published as epubs for their fans to buy and support the author.

LegionMammal978 2y ago
It also depends on what qualifies as 'published'. If a bot generates 100 nonsensical children's books with an LLM, lists them all on Amazon, and then takes them down a day later before anyone notices any of them (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779643), then were they ever really published?
- Bluestein 2y ago
  I - ignorantly - wonder what the whole point of that might be? - they cannot possibly sell that many in the intervening time ...
  - whythre 2y ago
    Padding numbers? ‘Our shitty bot has successfully* published* hundreds of books!’
    - Bluestein 2y ago
      That is awful. (Though you are probably entirely correct ...) (The only one's benefiting from that are the slop "shovels" purveyors to the AI-slop gold rush ...)