Ai avoidance is making me read older books.
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I’m pretty sure two of my long established authors (I started reading them back in the 90s!) have started to rely on ai for at least part of their more recent books. Both are crime novelists, so I don’t think it’s just fantasy :/ Maybe it’s not ai, but their newer books just feel…off.
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You seem remarkably offended by a kindergarten joke lol. Yes, I am aware that mathematically 2022 occurred before 2026. I did not realize my joke required this much clarification about the precise taxonomy of book ages.
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Also, I am one of many many readers specifically looking for new writers to NOT burn at the Ai stake. We want to find you. If you didn’t use Ai to write your book, people will know when they read it, you just have to get us to trust enough to read it. Also obviously don’t use Ai images as covers!
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First of all, add it to a title page or copyright page. ‘This author did not use Ai in the writing of this book’, ‘certified Ai free’, something like that - if, of course, it’s true (I’m sure it is). Make a website that has info about you, picture of you and info about your books- could include a blurb about your anti-ai and pro-human author…
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I want to be able to pick up a random book that looks good to me and not have to ‘research’ if a human actually wrote it. AI is not dominating book platforms--it's just extremely prevalent on KU. There's no gatekeeping there. That is setting you up for failure. You can pick up random books -- and be 99% the author is human -- at bookstores…
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I've gone back and have been reading classics I either read when I was too young to really comprehend them, or just missed out reading for some reason. Currently reading "Flowers for Algernon"
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If you're already kinda dumb, maybe, but if you have a basic understanding of how to think critically, arguably that is the single most powerful use case for chatbots. They are easily misled when it comes to specific facts - names, dates, things of that nature; trivial information - but when it comes to understanding concepts ? As long as you…
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It's really bleak, isn't it? I also resorted to look up the booker prize, women's prize for fiction books... Because they get asked so much about it, they can't get away with AI. My hope is that if everyone does this, the income for AI slop books will become so low that it's not worth it anymore. Or that they will develop a logo/trademark logo for…
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A book from 2022 is not older, those books have barely started kindergarten lol. You might check out fantasy from the 80s- early 2000s there’s some really good stuff. The difference in reading newer books and going to pre 2022 books is hilarious to me because my personal experience is trying to do 2000 or newer books because I like pre 2000 books…
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i mean there is so much literature.. have you already read up the local library? are you only reading newly published literature without a booklist? i dont know anyone who reads like that. it sounds like you just accidentally bought something without doing any research.
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You should look into the male Bowerbird as I think it’s an interesting case that kind of disproves your point that art has to be human made. They paint, naturally, without any help/training/influences from humans. They use it to attract a mate. They crush items to make a pigment and will even use leaves and twigs as brushes to paint the area…
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Yes, I hate generative language learning models. I believe that it's giving large segments of the population some amount of mild brain damage. They are no longer searching and writing for themselves, and they are sometimes even no longer reading non-summary content. Perhaps this situation will improve once the LLM speculative bubble pops. As for…
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Every statement here is true. My wife killed her subscription because of the sheer amount of crap foisted her way. I had to tell her about the software concept of “shovelware” as a comparison. I hang around on r/horrorlit for recommendations, it being one of my big genres. No booktok, no instagram, none of that shit. The most popular exemplars of…
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It's pretty easy to avoid AI if you read books by established authors from publishing presses with reviews. If you pick indie books willy nilly off Kindle then I guess that's the luck of the draw, but this doesn't seem like a problem for people who do less than ten minutes of research into what they read next.
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This is nonsense. I'm intelligent enough to find and process information on my own. Anything (generative) AI presents to me is suspect and needs to be verified with extreme rigor to the point where it literally just creates more work. Trusting AI to tell you anything when you care about the truth is extremely stupid. So either you're using…
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I always read a sample chapter before I buy a book. I did this even before AI, because a lot of writers in KU or coming to me via Bookbub specials are not that good. But, if you stick with writers who have a history of not using AI, writers who've been writing for a long time AND aren't formulaic (like a Patterson type), you should be safe. JG…
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I mostly read classics from american/european literrature, and a lot of fantasy/sci published published before 2015 or so. The few recent books I read are either from solid and well known authors I can trust (not really picturing Stephen King using AI, it would be too slow for him), or people who seem pretty anti AI slop considering their…
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Do you have any harlem renaissance authors you're particularly interested in? While browsing project gutenberg, I came across The Walls of Jericho by Rudolph Fisher (who, as far as I can tell, is part of this movement), and it's one of the few books I read, of recent memory, that I am very much looking forward to reading again after doing a little…
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Interesting question. I haven’t thought about this. Personally, I like to read books by my favourite authors or the classics (ie they’re mostly all pre-2022). I suppose if I was reading new books by authors I haven’t come across yet, I’d check their social media or website to see if there’s any evidence of past stories they’ve written, published…
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Yeah, it's crazy! I don't think I've ever come across an AI written book but then again I never blindly buy a book off an ebook store. People really are missing out some fantastic writing if they're only going to read "old" books from now 🤷♂️
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If anyone is interested I self published 1 (soon to be 2) spicy memoirs! I’m indie and non-AI and every sale is huge for me. It’s calling Dating Sucks! (…and So Do I!) on Amazon!
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Shy Girl is kind of an exception to the rule. It was originally self-published, did big numbers, and so Hachette made a cash grab and offered the writer money for the rights. I don’t think that book saw another editor before publication save maybe a copy editor, so it slipped through the cracks. Does that mean that AI books haven't been…
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My favorites are the ones pre computer. you still have spelling errors and other grammatical errors. Those feel real. because real people make mistakes. The age of the word processor ruined books.
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https://www. booksns.com/221953/ Ai avoidance is making me read older books. # books I just wanted to see if anyone else wants to talk about this. I got a kindle unlimited subscription for the first time a couple months ago and have been astounded at the amount of Ai books on there and how many are being fed to me via the sponsored, suggested, and…