AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres. The findings could give copyright plaintiffs the market-harm data their cases against AI companies have been missing.
  • markstos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    How soon until Amazon buys one of each, prints them; ships them to a different warehouse, rips the pages out and scans them back in?

    • a1studmuffin@aussie.zoneEnglish
      24·
      11 days ago

      I swear this is the real reason AI companies are concerned about watermarking - not for the public good, but so they can keep their model training inputs clean.