seaQueue , 10 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

I’ve been waiting for this to happen. We’ve seen an absolutely huge increase in the number of readers who expect books to be a collection of specific tropes showing up in various scifi and fantasy book communities asking for book recommendations that match a chosen hyper specific trope collection. I’m not sure when this started but I’ve noticed more of it every year for a while.

I’ve been expecting someone to start churning out AI produced content (books, short videos, generated game plots) in the same collection of tropes style since generative AI really caught on back in ~2022. It’s amusing as hell that trashy-short-soap-opera-on-tiktok is where it really gained a hold first. I think we’re going to see a whole lot more of this across every form of media soon and I hope the flood doesn’t draw too many users away from legit content creators who work hard to produce their own content.