A Beginner's Guide to AI AI Is Writing Books Faster Than You Can Make Coffee: The Rise of AI Slop
Nov 30, 2025
Explore the chaotic rise of AI-generated books, as creators grapple with the ethics of machine storytelling. Discover how AI writing models work and the implications for originality and copyright. Delve into Amazon's new restrictions and the unexpected cases of overwhelming AI content flooding platforms. With a cake analogy, the discussion highlights the tension between quality and mass production. Listeners also learn techniques to spot AI-generated text, emphasizing the importance of retaining the human voice in a rapidly evolving literary landscape.
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AI Books Are Mainstream Now
- AI-generated books are rapidly moving from experiment to mainstream presence across platforms like Amazon.
- They are cheap, fast, and can convincingly mimic human writing while lacking genuine lived experience.
Publishers And Platforms Were Flooded
- Clarkesworld temporarily shut submissions in 2023 after being flooded with machine-generated short stories.
- Amazon imposed a three-books-per-author-per-day limit due to a similar deluge of low-effort publications.
How Models Produce Text
- Large language models learn from mountains of text and predict likely next words rather than understanding meaning.
- This probabilistic method produces startlingly good surface-level text without true emotional comprehension.