AI Is Writing Books Faster Than You Can Make Coffee: The Rise of AI Slop

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📖 AI-Created Books: Chance or Threat?In this eye-opening episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, Professor GePhardT unpacks the fascinating, chaotic and sometimes alarming rise of AI-generated books. From Amazon’s restrictions on AI content to the ethics of machine-written storytelling, this episode dives deep into the future of publishing and what it means for readers, writers and creators.We explore how AI-written books are made, why platforms are overwhelmed and how readers can distinguish human creativity from machine-made text. You’ll hear surprising real-world cases, including the Clarkesworld shutdown and the now-infamous “82% AI-written” herbal remedy category on Amazon.📌 What you’ll learn:How AI book generation actually worksWhy AI is both a creative partner and a creative threatThe risks of misinformation in AI-written booksHow to spot an AI-generated bookWhy platforms like Amazon are tightening their rulesThe future of authorship in an AI-saturated world📧💌📧Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes — don't forget to subscribe to our Newsletter: beginnersguide.nl📧💌📧Quotes from the Episode“A book is more than content; it’s a relationship between the mind that wrote it and the mind that reads it.”“AI doesn’t dream, doubt or desire — it just predicts what comes next.”“AI can help creativity bloom, but it can also bury real voices under mountains of machine-written noise.”🧑🏻 About Dietmar FischerDietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to kickstart your AI or digital marketing journey, he’s your guy!You can find him at Argoberlin.com🎧 Music credit: “Modern Situations” by Unicorn Heads

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