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Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop
The proliferation of generative AI in the world of publishing is not just a threat to the industry, but to readers who love stories.
“I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with J. Bree’s style, which features more tension, gritty undertones, and raw emotional subtext beneath the supernatural elements,” reads a note in chapter three of McDonald’s Darkhollow Academy: Year 2. Meta’s former head of global affairs Nick Clegg said asking for permission from rights owners to train models is “implausible” and that it would “basically kill the AI industry in this country [the U.K.] overnight.” That’s the gross reality of this Faustian bargain none of us signed up for: this system cannot work without theft, so we are expected to roll over and let it happen so that we can live in a world where art is meaningless beyond its immediate monetary value. AI books aren’t stuffed into the world because of audience demand or artistic need: they’re a way to overrun the market to the point where readers and writers alike have no choice but to accept it as part of the status quo.
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