Amazon has created a new rule limiting the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale in recent months.
The company announced the new limitations in a post on its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) forum on Monday. “While we have not seen a spike in our publishing numbers, in order to help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place on new title creations,” read the statement. KDP allows authors to self-publish their books and list them for sale on Amazon’s site.
Amazon told the Guardian that the limit is set at three titles, though this number may be adjusted “if needed”. The company confirmed that there was previously no limit to the number of books authors could list a day.
Now people will rely on social cred. Indie authors would have to rely on social media and blogging to come accross as attractive enough for their written works to be interesting. Same with any other indie-related fields, really.
That’ll only last for a few seconds.
But this time next year, the number of Astro turfed fake online personas that are AI generated is going to be insane.
Unless someone finds a way to fight it (which I’m not counting on)
The ai authors will have real conversations with other ai profiles, making it look like a real person with real family and real friends.
We are entering the post-truth era.
May your deity of choice have mercy on our souls.
Every generated thing I’ve ever read has been pure garbage.
If you truly think a terrible imitation of AI can replace your work, you might just be a fucking awful writer.
Well I’m an awful writer, so yes
But it’s more that I think the ai will very decent works in the search engines and listings on websites
Because the listings and search on websites are also generated content and not overly intelligent