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Zagaroth ,
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Well, that's all the more reason to not try to monetize through Amazon. But Patreons seem to only be about 0.5% of the people who Follow a story on Royal Road. Well, I'll have to keep working on more incentives I guess.

sparky ,
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I, for one, can’t wait to read Apricot bar code architecture

megopie ,

This is going to be the real result of the large language model hype train, massive floods of basically worthless “content” made simply to pump metrics and fool investors.

I’m not saying that there is no useful applications for the tech just that none of those are particularly marketable nor do they generate a lot of monetizable utility.

And more importantly it’s not AI anymore than auto complete, spell check are. People insisting otherwise almost seem like they’re trying to start cults.

Snapz ,
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"Folding Ideas" does amazing work on YouTube around exposing grifters in well structured, long form explanations of their grifts.

One of their videos looked into a group of growth hustler type folks, a pair of twins. Part of their scam was automating the process of creating fake books like this from start to finish to sell them online for passive income.

Highly recommend anything this channel creates. Worth your time to have a focused sit to watch the journey unfold (especially if interested in the main subject of this post).

https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw

ConstableJelly ,

I fully second this. Folding Ideas is a first-class educator. I would still be completely in the dark on NFTs and Crypto without him, and "In Search of a Flat Earth" completely changed my perspective on flat earth adherents (i.e., I am much less amused by it).

argv_minus_one ,

Flat Earth adherents? What's their dirty secret?

ConstableJelly ,

No secret, I just used to think they were being stubbornly dense, like goofy idiots. His video contended that it's more malicious than that, born out of evangelical arrogance and an unfulfilled need to be smarter and more "moral" than everyone else.

argv_minus_one ,

I feel like I turned out similarly, except the exact opposite.

To me, it's really, really important to be correct. Not to think I'm correct, mind you, but to actually be correct. One of my fears, therefore, is to be wrong about something without realizing it, especially if other people do realize that I'm wrong.

I wonder what that says about me.

Spudger ,
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Anyone that buys anything from Amazon is also part of the problem. Support your local bookshop while you still can.

moon_matter ,
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A store cannot survive on good will alone unfortunately. As much as I like my local bookstore, Amazon provides more content in more formats. It's just better from every angle.

Spudger ,
@Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Don’t worry, your utopian vision of streets full of closed shops and associated tumbleweed will be here soon enough.

quortez ,
@quortez@kbin.social avatar

It really sucks that we're facing the digital equivalent of climate change with regards to the internet and the content economy on top of the decline of the actual economy and actual climate change. It's all so much.

communication ,

Nothing today will make me sadder than knowing this isn't a real book

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/abadd432-6b5b-48eb-8141-34ae92025d53.png

Hypx ,
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It's the Dead Internet Theory in action. While it stays a conspiracy for the Internet as a whole, it is definitely true at particular websites. There are many communities which are just controlled by bots and have no real people there.

megopie ,

The goal for most of the investors in this tech is going to be to crow bar large language model nonsense in to every corner of the internet. At a certain point I can’t help but wonder if they are actively trying to ruin it.

CanadaPlus ,

There is no way a modern LLM wrote this stuff. Maybe a medium language model, or a really old LLM. It reads better than a Markov chain’s work, I guess.

Suedeltica ,
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Behind the Bastards just did a two-parter on this phenomenon but with children’s “books.” Icky stuff. Great episodes, but ugh that this is even a thing.

Part One: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000617646703

Part Two: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000617949358

threeio ,

I had to pull my kindle unlimited membership… it’s just a pile of crap.

UngodlyAudrey ,
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Yeah, I absolutely can't imagine being a writer who is trying to break in this space. Discoverability is going to be a nightmare going forward.

Southrydge ,
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It’s honestly heartbreaking considering how much work it must be to write a book and how scary it is especially with so many influencers and celebrities in the market now already making it harder for real authors to get noticed

VoxAdActa ,
@VoxAdActa@kbin.social avatar

This was a part of the equation when I decided to pursue traditional publishing instead of going the self-publishing route. I wouldn't be competing against other authors for the attention of publishers, I'd be competing against an ocean of ghost-written get-rich-quick schemes and bots. Sometimes gatekeepers serve a real purpose.

argv_minus_one ,

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