I would argue that creating an llm book that sells also requires human labour, just a different kind of one.
replyIt doesn't, that's the whole point. You can produce output that passes the smell test with naive buyers in a matter of hours. If you want to write good LLM books, then you gotta work closer to human speed - weeks, months - which allows others to produce 100 slop-books in the same timeframe. You still lose.
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replyIt also takes human labor to run an effective nigerian prince scam. That doesn't make it okay.
replyNow you piqued my interest. Any good AI-written books out there? I thought it's all slop.
replyGiven the witch hunts around AI creative output, nobody who has put in work to avoid the stigma is going to out themselves.
replyWhy would they have had to put work in?
replyIf an author let AI do 90 to 95% of the work, cleaned up the remaining 5 to 10% themselves, would you say AI or the author wrote it? Because this is roughly the split between an author and an editor, with human writing, now.
replyThe work is either: (1) the act of concealment: generating an AI book that cannot be detected as AI generated; or (2) actually just writing the book yourself.
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