AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos
The Wall Street Journal's report is for subscribers, but its headline carries the claim: AI has plunged the book publishing industry into utter chaos. The Hacker News thread it started is small but pointed. One commenter wonders whether human-made art can earn a living at all against slop's effort-to-dollar ratio, and expects the work that feels authentic to be the work given away free. Another wants the flood treated as an attack: the novels are, in that commenter's view, obviously machine-made and nowhere near good enough, but their sheer volume clogs search and buries discovery, and a reply adds that publishers' review processes cannot scale to meet it. On that reading, the chaos is a discovery problem before it is a quality problem.
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