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But who evaluates all those books? AIs can pump out thousands of books a day and the fake reviews pumping them up, too.
Just look at Amazon right now. It's flooded with cheap chinese knockoffs, that often even have relatively good reviews. These are "artisanal" fakes, in that there's actual physical goods involved, which creates overhead and thus limits the amount of fakes that can be introduced.
And now imagine this with autogenerated books from autogenerated authors with autogenerated reviews.
It might be possible to spot fakes. But real authors will drown in the cheap crapcontent flood.
I'm not disagreeing with you. What I'm saying is that the problem is not the existence of AI-generated books, it's the ability to sort through books for ones you're likely to enjoy.
The book markets were already flooded with junk long before the latest round of AI came along. If anything the junk was worse before because the "AI" generating it was worse - it was just pasting together Wikipedia articles and whatnot. Or just plain badly written human-generated stuff, there's no end to that out there either.