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Aunt Sally writing a book in her kitchen is not the same as automated publishing using scripts and bots. The ability of machines to generate content is not at a
by mistrial9 1y ago
Aunt Sally writing a book in her kitchen is not the same as automated publishing using scripts and bots. The ability of machines to generate content is not at all similar to real human authors. Those familiar with online commerce just want to fill pipes with content, and machines can make that content. It is a question of scale, speed and the nature of the material. This is not at all a stable situation IMHO as the larger trends are clear.
- FinnLobsien 1y agoYes, I mean that's true. But the idea that Aunt Sally writes a Kindle ebook in her kitchen is idealizing the self-publishing world. Even human writing for Kindle eBooks was mostly not Aunt Sally's passion project, but someone who hired an overseas writer for a short ebook on whatever topic is popular in SEO. Yes, LLMs supercharge that and set the cost of creation to zero, so it's a different ball game. But even before that, self-published ebooks were largely garbage by marketers.