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Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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It's crazy that this is even necessary. I can't imagine the sheer amount of crap people upload every day, completely ruining it for us serious Indie writers in the process.
Now people will avoid self published books even more than before.
I give up there sooo much garbage on there I have no way to get people to find my novel and word of mouth isn't enough. I am currently looking for an agent for my next book.
Was thinking about that and decided to just shelve my books for now and decide later. Not in a hurry to publish.
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
Not if they are regulated to put an "In Full or in Part AI Generated" label on it.
Not even AI can detect AI-generated text though.
Self publishing is here to stay. What indie authors need is to create imaginative ways to guarantee their work is theirs and comes from their mind and not parsed through a meatgrinder to produce a poor substitute good.
Do I have any answers? No. I'm on that train myself, scared my work can be taken away from me. But I'm not willing to let my dream die and I will write ad publish.
I'll just keep on doing what I've been doing. Can't help it.
Which is?
Writing, of course. I'm in the middle of a new project, which will be a pretty long space opera series. Not worrying about publishing any of it anytime soon, though, and I'm still tackling parts of the backstory and the arcs of various characters while the first part of the first book is already drafted.
That's an adventure. Where is the bad decision part? Hope to read it some day.
What do you mean by "the bad decision part"?
Never mind that. I was engaged on another thread while replying here and some wires got crossed.
But honestly I hope to read your work some day. As a wannabe author myself, it's nice to meet other people wanting to write.
If at some point you need a soundboard to bounce ideas off, feel free to drop me a message.
Will do, thanks :)