I think many people forget that the vast majority of books aren't high art. Your mind goes to Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, N.K. Jemsin, or Pratchett. My mind g

I think many people forget that the vast majority of books aren't high art. Your mind goes to Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, N.K. Jemsin, or Pratchett. My mind goes to Ice Planet Barbarians[0] or Crimson Worlds[1] (both written by actual humans, but I think they are good representations of their genres) There are so many books in the romantasy genre specifically that could be just mad libs templates for AI Generated books. The people who read them don't care about the plot, they want specific kinds of tropes in the book. They look for enemies-to-lovers, 7 foot tall men, tiny women and other very focused traits (ages, races, LQBTQIA+) in the books. They are consumable fun, not something anyone expects to be stored in the Library of Congress for future generations because they were so earth-shatteringly insightful. Yes, AI authored (or assisted) books won't bring us the next Culture books by Iain M. Banks, but the next generic romantasy or self-published military scifi books could very well be. And nobody will notice - or care. It's 200-300 pages of entertainment that hits just the specific itch you had. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/series/151379-ice-planet-barbarians https://www.goodreads.com/series/151379-ice-planet-barbarian... [1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/97149-crimson-worlds https://www.goodreads.com/series/97149-crimson-worlds