Poll: What is the main threat of AI-generated books flooding markets? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Ricardo Aries 
Indonesia
Local time: 23:15
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| The Loss of Authentic Human Connection | Sep 21 |
A book written by a human essentially serves as a connection to the author's deepest emotions and reasoning, woven into a complex web of thoughts and ideas. In contrast, AI-generated books, whether fully created by AI or with some AI assistance, diminish this core human connection to the author's inner world.
| | | | | | Thayenga
Germany
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No human translation = no capturing of emotional nuances. The loss of cultural insight, and price dumping is another factor. And these are not the only threats, however, I am tired of thinking about AI, thus exhaustion is another threat.
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AI slop...
[Edited at 2026-09-21 10:51 GMT]
| | | | | We don't read books published after 2022...anymore | Sep 21 |
Another threat steams from the recursive AI slop recycling: AI training itself on self-generated text leads to AI self-degradation.
| | | | | This is the reason I created a list of human-created language books | Sep 21 |
There are 1000s of AI-generated language textbooks. Therefore, I created a list of over 5,700 reference books for over 300 languages. I own most of these books, but for those I don't, I have reviewed a full digital copy to make sure they are not 100% AI generated by someone who does not speak the language:
https://www.amazon.com/shop/languagecrawler
I also wrote an ... See more There are 1000s of AI-generated language textbooks. Therefore, I created a list of over 5,700 reference books for over 300 languages. I own most of these books, but for those I don't, I have reviewed a full digital copy to make sure they are not 100% AI generated by someone who does not speak the language:
https://www.amazon.com/shop/languagecrawler
I also wrote an article about how to avoid buying AI-generated books by non speakers of the language here: https://www.languagecrawler.com/2026/04/when-your-language-textbook-has-never.html ▲ Collapse
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Exploitation by malevolent forces to promote embedded political agendas. Just as some political leaders try to control the news media, so the forces behind them can use mass fiction as a medium to influence the public via hidden messages.
Getting human writers to produce stuff like that can be difficult, but with AI there's no problem.
I hear what others are saying about connecting with the author's deeper feelings, nuance, communication, and all that—and as an author... See more Exploitation by malevolent forces to promote embedded political agendas. Just as some political leaders try to control the news media, so the forces behind them can use mass fiction as a medium to influence the public via hidden messages.
Getting human writers to produce stuff like that can be difficult, but with AI there's no problem.
I hear what others are saying about connecting with the author's deeper feelings, nuance, communication, and all that—and as an author of fiction myself I would never question the value of it—but let's face it, the vast majority of what people actually read is nothing like as serious as that (I mean cheap thrills and romance on airport book stands, and so on) and books authored by AI can easily compete in that arena.
Serious fiction is safe for the time being, but the pulp stuff can already be mimicked effectively by AI. ▲ Collapse
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| Paying readers and users are disappearing | Sep 22 |
You make much more products, much more apps and softwares, you publish more. You produce more than people need, saturating the market beyond consumer demand, your products lose value, potentially dropping to zero. You produce, no one pays.
What an era of abundance and wealth.
Illustration:
https://x.com/Samaytwt/status/2101952927934095525
| | | | | One of the main threats, in my view, is the dilution of human subjectivity in literature. | Sep 22 |
I think one of the main particularities of human creativity is subjectivity, which is shaped by our emotions, cultural background, experiences, and perceptions.
My thesis on subjectivity in drama has made me realise that this may be one of the main things AI cannot fully reproduce. AI is trained on texts from many cultures and perspectives, but humans have a unique and personal relationship with language. The way we use language in everyday life is constantly influenced by our cultu... See more I think one of the main particularities of human creativity is subjectivity, which is shaped by our emotions, cultural background, experiences, and perceptions.
My thesis on subjectivity in drama has made me realise that this may be one of the main things AI cannot fully reproduce. AI is trained on texts from many cultures and perspectives, but humans have a unique and personal relationship with language. The way we use language in everyday life is constantly influenced by our culture, experiences, and individual perception.
This subjective dimension is what gives human writing its individuality and makes it difficult for AI to truly replicate. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Most are probably not written for "human readers" anyway | Sep 22 |
Subscribers pay a monthly fee to get unlimited free access to Kindle books. A combined pool of the subscription and sales money is divided up and used to pay authors based on how many pages of their books are read. I've read that People use AI to generate ebooks, then pay a third party (company) to use bots to generate 1000s of fake page views of their fake books. Outnumbered 100 to 1 by AI-generated books and bot page reads, real humans who created real books end up making very little and event... See more Subscribers pay a monthly fee to get unlimited free access to Kindle books. A combined pool of the subscription and sales money is divided up and used to pay authors based on how many pages of their books are read. I've read that People use AI to generate ebooks, then pay a third party (company) to use bots to generate 1000s of fake page views of their fake books. Outnumbered 100 to 1 by AI-generated books and bot page reads, real humans who created real books end up making very little and eventually give up.
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| | | | | We read to get connected with another mind | Sep 22 |
SEIDOU OUMAROU (M.A) wrote:
I think one of the main particularities of human creativity is subjectivity, which is shaped by our emotions, cultural background, experiences, and perceptions.
My thesis on subjectivity in drama has made me realise that this may be one of the main things AI cannot fully reproduce. AI is trained on texts from many cultures and perspectives, but humans have a unique and personal relationship with language. The way we use language in everyday life is constantly influenced by our culture, experiences, and individual perception.
This subjective dimension is what gives human writing its individuality and makes it difficult for AI to truly replicate.
We are social beings and one of language's functions is to make one’s mind accessible to others. We seek to connect with another subjectivity rather than simply looking for the most probable sequences of words, as AI does.
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