"...streamlines all stages of book production, distribution, and promotion..." is telling language. These aren't people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related. These are opportunists and extractive capitalists. - ThreadSky

suyidavies.com • 174 days ago

"...streamlines all stages of book production, distribution, and promotion..." is telling language.

These aren't people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related. These are opportunists and extractive capitalists.

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lartist.bsky.social•174 days ago

Dan Olson did a great YT doc on the get rich scheming of audible books just a couple years ago. This just swapped out writing mills for AI.

ddalglish.com•174 days ago

Three weeks from contact to publication. Absolute scam.

suyidavies.com•174 days ago

All for the princely sum of $5,000 flowing away from the "author"

ddalglish.com•174 days ago

Oh yeah but it's totally worth it because for the 5k you get, um...

Fancy spellcheck?

suyidavies.com•174 days ago

Personally, I'm happy for anyone who wishes to use generative AI to "write" a "book" to be parted from their $5k.

ddalglish.com•174 days ago

Ok yes but I'd prefer that money go to a better place than techbros.

Plus, they're still soliciting manuscripts and promising AI miracle editing and covers. It's predatory vanity publishing all over again, and the victims will be people told a slew of lies about how AI works.

john-archie.bsky.social•173 days ago

Well done to point this out. Thanks.

realarnieb.bsky.social•174 days ago

Have you seen the list of authors whose books were fed into AI so the succubus could "learn" to "write?" Many friends of mine and I had our books unknowningly used and "used" in the both senses of the term. The list was produced by The Atlantic

suyidavies.com•174 days ago

My novel was among them!

realarnieb.bsky.social•174 days ago

We are in a Whak-a-Mole world.

thejosephabiola.bsky.social•174 days ago

What?!

datafran.bsky.social•174 days ago

That’s not book publishing, that’s a content mill.

suyidavies.com•174 days ago

A content farm producing book-shaped fruit whose contents are nutrient-deficient sludge, & whose existence & growth practices poison everything else.

thejosephabiola.bsky.social•174 days ago

I feel like it also has the effect of dilution of the literary landscape.

omgoff.bsky.social•173 days ago

You summed it up perfectly. These people are vultures who see art as just another commodity.

rachelernst.bsky.social•174 days ago

I feel like there's a new one of these every other month. Whether it be for knitting patterns (remember the guys who thought they'd just take over the knitting industry LOL) or picture books or whatever. Scam after scam.

suyidavies.com•174 days ago

These are people who, once this scam fades, will simply find another to glom on to. They should be rightfully pelted with eggs in the streets, not rewarded with millions in funding. But what do I know? I'm just some guy.

metakad.bsky.social•169 days ago

It will be a disaster! We need find a way to fight this

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