Given how AI is already polluting the water of literary works, I’m likely never going to read a new book for quite some time, but will just pursue books before 2010.
Is 2010 a good cutoff?
Given how AI is already polluting the water of literary works, I’m likely never going to read a new book for quite some time, but will just pursue books before 2010.
Is 2010 a good cutoff?
There have always been bad books. There will always be good books. An arbitrary cutoff would only hurt myself.
I feel that bad books written by humans is different than books written by AI, and I feel the difference is mostly intent. A bad book might have been written with the best of intentions. A generated book, not so much
If you find value in the book, it doesn’t matter who wrote it. Now… author reputation is a good metric, if a AI is consistently pumping out good books… then its time to welcome the robot overlords.
Asking other people you trust for recommendations is a great starting point.
Yeah, but trusting people on the internet is now becoming harder than ever. Measuring the merit of someone’s words is no longer enough if they’re being paraphrased by some tool with a later intent to either spy on you or sell you products.
My Convoluted Logic: Sure I could reach out to my network of real people, but not many share the same interests as me. I feel that if someone online who expresses the same tastes as myself does turn out to be an AI, then the minimum amount of damage it could do to me in shilling a book would be one written by a human before the AI was conceived. This is what I mean by a minimum cutoff year
You could start by switching from strangers to friends.
Strangers on the internet have always been unreliable. AI just adds to the stench.
count the number of downvotes of this post submission plus my abrasive attitude in this comment and tell me how likely that is to happen
That just proves my point though
The down votes are from internet strangers
I’m an internet stranger
Friends would presumably be people who share in your interests and outlooks and so would be willing to help you figure such things out. At least mine are.
My friends are good fun people, but our interest overlap is quite small. I’ve historically found myself learning more about my interest from internet strangers, than from irl friends.
People you trust, in real life, is a good start