BOOK COMMUNITEA: PUBLISHING IS DOOMED! AI RUINING EVERYTHING

[@bluesey-182]

i personally think it's actually ableist and infantilizing for people to say that disabled people need AI to create art, as a disabled person myself. disabled artists have found ways to make art without AI since... forever

[@amaresuify]

So very gross for people to say. And says so much about what they actually think of disabled people.

[@moustik31]

Right? We need accommodation tools, not unethical and exploitative ones. 😠

[@kitteninabowl5190]

it is also saying a disabled person book needs to look just like a person who isnt disabled book. they are basically streamlining the people to be all the same

[@hiddenrainbow12]

To me what's shocking is that they think the market needs more books. Like, it's already overflooded?? Publishers can't market most books, we can't read even 1% of what comes out, and they think that publishing 32 books in a day will make them more money?? Dumb bros

[@JessOwens]

Exactly!! We don’t need 8,000 books in a year from one publisher!

[@stephaniewilliams6756]

This is infuriating, AI is not only devastating to the environment (uses as much Co2 as like 3 small countries) but also spells doom for imagination, crrativity, IP rights, and humanity. Thanks for covering this

[@mglarson5936]

I’m so frustrated by how many people I know don’t have any idea about the environmental impact of generative AI, on top of all the other obvious issues with it

[@xAthena21]

"Irish accent - is that a trope???" 😭😭😭 I totally agree with you. Nobody needs AI to write or paint. NaNoWriMo threw disabled writers under the bus when they tried to use that as an excuse, and disabled writers said "no, actually we have never needed the rainforest-destroying data slop machine to write for us, thanks!" People who think they need AI to write a book or paint a picture fundamentally misunderstand why people do those things - it's the self-expression, not the product. That's why companies are so excited about it - all they care about is the product and the resulting $$$

[@sinshenlong]

"If someone is trying to steal it from you, then that thing must have great value." *Continues to write*

[@LauraWood]

As an actual human artist I continue to be so appreciative of your videos on AI; ugh it's all so frustrating and disheartening, but I'm glad you're educating folks

[@HungryEyes-sl3mu]

It's how quickly author's sell out artists (illustrators) yet cry over AI publishing that kills me. How do you not see these are the same thing Karen???

[@LauraGomez-bl2so]

@@HungryEyes-sl3mu THIS. So many of them don't see it.

[@JessOwens]

It’s everywhere and I’m angry every time I see it

[@Marie45610]

I've been working on my own book/writing for a while, and it's so disheartening seeing people pump out AI 'books' and talk about how writing a book is "sooo easy". No it's not! Researching shit is hard and takes a lot of time. I'm trying not to let it discourage me, but it's hard.

[@stardustmemory000083]

It's easy to produce AI sludge, but none of it will be remembered. Actual literary artistry will survive this sad, but brief, moment in history.

[@Marie45610]

@@stardustmemory000083 I sure hope so.

[@kaylamoerman8808]

If publishing companies wanted more people to write books and give more people a voice then they should focus in using their reach to enable would be authors to have access to publishing and supporting basic human needs so that more art and Good quality art at that, can be created!

[@mint-pumpkins]

I have become more and more convinced that when these people watch or read sci fi they think it’s a guidebook or just a “wow look cool thing” and they don’t realize it’s often meant to be a warning 😬

[@andiman44]

Folks will read dystopian or sci-fi horror and learn nothing 😅

[@TheCraftyNarcoleptic]

​@@andiman44right? Or when reality starts to line up with it they're all "oh my goooood, that author predicted the future". Nah, they were writing about what was already happening and taking it to the logical conclusion. People getting all "the hunger games came true" during the met ball, when the author literally said 15 years ago that she wrote the book BECAUSE of the contrast as she flicked TV channels between war coverage and entertainment / celebrity shows etc.

[@LorewithouttheE]

they're just like "we have built The Torment Nexus from the famous novel, 'Don't Build the Torment Nexus'" 😆😅

[@mint-pumpkins]

@ lmaooo exactly, this cracked me up haha

[@moustik31]

​@@andiman44They do learn but imo they are like "MrBeast" and actually ENJOY creating mayhem and destruction for money.

[@wifeunderthesea]

i will never stop saying this: this is the realest channel on this entire ass app.

[@JessOwens]

Grateful for you 🩵🩵🩵

[@EvieM1]

We should be asking ourselves why we aren’t crying ALL THE TIME.

[@literarylivi]

@EvieM1 I agree with you. I also think that they don't actually care if people read it or not. I think they care that we swipe the card as many times as possible.

[@JessOwens]

It seems it’s all I do 😫

[@mysticheathentarot]

Honestly I feel AI will eventually have it's downfall. We already see how AI really isn't all that great especially after seeing Spotify Wrapped this year and how it lacked accuracy, data, and personalization because the 1500 people they laid off were what made the wrap so special. It will be the same for books, they won't get far with AI books unless they have an editor or someone who is going to polish the books to make sure they make sense and have some sort of story line and aren't repeating the same thing over and over because lets be real if you asked ChatGPT for certain things it only spits out maybe five different things before it starts repeating the same thing or same thing different font. They're literally treating the book industry like fast fashion where you just pump things out just to pump them out with no real knowledge of who your clientele, the market, and etc really is. They just want to be the next Steve Jobs and try to "revolutionize" an industry that doesn't need to be at least not in this way. Revolutionize how Authors are being paid, treated, and marketed not pumping out books that are worse quality than some fanfics.

[@JessOwens]

“Revolutionize how authors are being paid, treated, and marketed.” 👏🏾 THIS

[@resoketswem.manenzhe157]

I use Microsoft as my word processor and I had to disable some automatic setting that shares my work without my consent. I saw a video on TikTok warning people about it, went to check if my Microsoft had it, and it did. Something called "shared experiences" under options. It is scary.

[@Frogface91]

Christ 😭 Need to look for this now

[@resoketswem.manenzhe157]

@@Frogface91 i forgot where i found it, but it's under "file>options> ..." can't remember what happens after. you have to un-click it because word has been sharing our writing this whole time. i was mad mad.

[@hotjanuary]

Libre Office has upgraded to include the ribbon theme for those that got used to it from using MS word. Bonus: you can export your work to epub and read it on your ereader for better editing experience to catch mistakes.

[@JessOwens]

It’s literally infiltrating every single product or website. I’m over it

[@coffee_cookies_books]

I'm sitting here listening to your rant about AI and wouldn't you know an "AI" commercial came up during your video. There's no escaping it! I'm with you girl!!!!!

[@arimcphail4124]

The same happened for me, it is sickening

[@coffee_cookies_books]

@@arimcphail4124 I had ads pop up twice and they were both selling "AI" ... pretty ominous and sickening

[@JessOwens]

😫😫😫

[@kaylamoerman8808]

Humans: evolved consciousness to become an incredibly successful species due to creativity, innovation and critical thinking Humans: creates AI so that creativity, innovation and critical thinking is no longer required to function Like I don’t know whether this can be linked back to capitalism draining us of the energy to be creative at all, but it is so damn sad that the society we live in do not value that very skills that got us this far. Storytelling is a cornerstone to how we live as a social species and I just… kinda hate that humanity is slowly being leeched out of stories. What is the point of being aware that our existence is finite and part of something greater if we aren’t going to share that existence meaningfully. To be very dramatic, I don’t want to be a star, or even the shadow of a star in a false sky

[@arimcphail4124]

Well said, I understand that technology was made to use physical labours easier, sometimes I even feel that goes too far but using tech to replace the creative mind and process? That’s so sad, what is the point of being human and alive if you cannot engage with the things that make life worth living and create things that others will connect with. We’ll make ourselves into machines working, spending, consuming

[@Fayeseverexpandingbookshelf]

Did they actually ask the authors, or just sneak it into contracts like companies love to do

[@JessOwens]

EXCELLENT QUESTION

[@michellemonarrez2371]

As an author, this is BAD. 😢 I'm doing my best to use human services at every step and I'm so tired of getting that *Use AI* options everywhere that Jess is talking about. Publishing is dead.

[@christinec28]

As a disabled person, honestly SHAME on anyone who is using their disability to condone their use of generative AI.

[@kalka1l]

20:50 I love their flattening of history. Over half a century between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution but here they occurred hand in hand, rather than the latter undermining the former. No mention of how subjugating people through the horrors of Atlantic slavery was an enlightenment catalyst or the millions ground to dust by the gears of colonial expansion and trade. Guess that’s what we’ll lose when the machines write future history. They will keep shoveling humans into the machines while trumpeting it’s for the good of all.

[@KimberlyBea-d3d]

I picked up on it, too. Totally different eras!

[@markreadsbo]

To be fair I have seen it said that the enlightenment ran until 1789. With Brittan starting to use steam power in 1712 with the newcum engine to pump water out of a mine. the enlightenment caused the industrial revolution,, its just their are no fixed dates for when they started and endeded so you can argue they happened at the same time or a shortwhile apart.

[@sinaseas]

this is all so sickening i hate being alive today

[@triofan9]

You succinctly expressed exactly how I’ve been feeling lately

[@Jack.mandora]

Not only is it self-insert, I feel like I can find better on AO3

[@JessOwens]

Most likely 🤣

[@themusicsnob]

I read an article this morning about how nuclear energy facilities are looking into using AI instead of humans to keep the reactors running and the facilities going…so like, AI making energy to run more AI to replace people who (btw) already are underemployed and unpaid…didn’t anyone else ever watch Terminator 2 or the Matrix?!

[@JessOwens]

My god 😖😖😖

[@sinaseas]

not the self insert hozier romance thats inSANE 😭😭

[@JessOwens]

CRAZY WORK

[@ivesphillips]

I will always and forever push indie book publishers and bookstores to readers since Big Publishers want to make fools of us. My favorites are Coffeehouse Press, Milkweed Editions, Tin House Books, and Red Bone Press. Also, have you ever thought about being a literary agent, Jess?

[@JessOwens]

Being a literary agent has never crossed my mind haha.

[@KimberlyBea-d3d]

My debut novel is coming out in 2025. And yeah, there are a ton of books out there, far too many for any one individual to read. Yet I don't see my fellow (human) authors as competition, but celebrate and support them, just as they celebrate and support me. But the thought of 8000 MORE books flooding into the marketplace just from this one company, with the help of AI . . . I don't have the words. And readers will pay the cost, when they have to wade through the glut of AI generated dreck, and when the authors they love can no longer afford to write.

[@TheRonnieaj]

Congrats on your debut!! 🎉🎉🎉 I hope you enjoy! Revel in it and accept ALL the great well-wishes. If you haven’t already, start pulling your quotes for marketing, and stay away from reviews. 😃😃

[@lotusthemermaid]

First of all, I'm sorry things are so bleak right now. I feel you and I've been trying to just unplug more as much as I want to be aware and fight because it's too much and I've got mental illnesses girl. But you're not alone and I do fully believe we're going to get through this. It's been really rough on my faith, but I'm holding onto hope. Secondly, when the next Revolution comes, I really hope we can throw AI in the proverbial harbor with the CEOs. They're trying to replace the working class so they don't need us, but they can't do anything for themselves. They will always need us and we will always outnumber them.

[@sarahstarbell]

I hate this garbage with cloning voices...I'm a big k-pop fan of a particularly big group and every time I go on tiktok someone's got a song up with their voices recreated with an AI and I hate it, not to mention it's just weird. I can't imagine audiobooks with cloning an author's voice....that's what voice actors are for because they're ACTORS, not just someone reading a book with no acting/voicing talent whatsoever.

[@JessOwens]

The voice cloning is so terrible 😵‍💫

[@stardustmemory000083]

What we're watching is the desperate attempt to come up with a real use for AI to justify the enormous amount of money being invested in the tech sector by public and private financing. There's one problem: there is none.

[@TheRonnieaj]

I think there are excellent uses of non-generative AI, but haven’t seen a good one for generative AI yet.

[@heyimsasa]

besides killing the creative industry and making artists so discouraged that they leave the field entirely, generative AI is predicted to use as much water as all of new zealand by 2027. the fact that corporations are trying to integrate it into our daily lives is horrifying. please pay an artist for your projects. i guarantee you it will be better than anything generative AI will churn AND it won't be...y'know, illegal because genAI is stealing art from real people.

[@LauraGomez-bl2so]

I feel like it's another one of those times when a Gen Z invents something that already exists. These four idiot guys have never heard of vanity publishing and think they've come up with some new revolutionary idea.

[@TheRonnieaj]

As a HarperCollins author (admittedly fiction, not non-fiction), I’m so glad my rights start reverting in January and will be fully done in 2026. 🙃🙃

[@carolinesch.]

13:55 Funny that you mention jurassic Park because I just finished reading book 1 of that😂😂

[@BookmarkChronicles]

As soon as you said tech company I knew who it was

[@sinaseas]

you are so real for this

[@fangirl-inator1094]

I literally got told by my lowkey ivy league highly awarded school to use ai to help me write a cover letter after I expressed how I was unable to get a job

[@JessOwens]

😲😲😲

[@Jess_talks_book]

Tech bros need to start reading/watching sci-fi instead of trying to get AI to take over everything

[@jaimee-kate]

AI is going to be our downfall, and I just can't understand how or why people are buying in so easily. Also the rate of publishing has already increased so much and the quality of books has dropped so much recently.The LAST thing I want is more mediocre books flooding the market, especially if they are written by AI

[@JessOwens]

Exactly.

[@CEMonaghanOfficial]

So, honest question: can we pressure bookstores to refuse to carry and sell AI titles? After all, they tend to be a major point of influence on whether a book sells or not. Let the AI bros find out that they'll be lucky to get their titles to sell 100 copies just like 99 percent of indie authors, tbh.

[@JessOwens]

Great question. Because I’m wondering if the books will be print or just ebook?

[@CEMonaghanOfficial]

@@JessOwens If it's just e-books, that simplifies the ability to not purchase AI slop quite a bit.

[@jabberwockybooks]

Technically speaking, could someone not then take the works they publish verbatim and self-publish it themselves for cheaper, as it is unable to be copyright protected due to the use of extensive AI? (Not because it’s worthwhile, but as a statement of sorts).

[@carolinesch.]

And thats why I like german publishing in terms of the schedule, like lyx, I just watched their schedule, book 1 is early 2025? Here is the dates for book 2 in fall and 3 next year because all of them are already done. Even new authors sometimes especially I see it in romance by them. This frenzy about needing book 1 to be performing good to even have the chance to have the next ones published? Nope. Also lyx paperback are literally all the same height always so they are soooo nice on the shelf

[@Lundipolish]

Your little moment from 34:33 to 34:45 really spoke to me lol I am frightened for AI taking over creative industries.

[@LorewithouttheE]

yeah that whole Spines thing reminds me of Folding Ideas' video about the Mikkelsen twins, where they were touting a quick publishing turnaround for 'easy' cash (until it gets taken down from Amazon for being spam garbage) when it was just telling people to send barebones nonfiction ideas to underpaid overworked ghostwriters, who are paid by the project so they just crank 'em out in order to afford food and rent only it's ten times worse because now it's not even humans producing this schlock, it's grifters' environment-destroying theftware desperately seeking a use case these bros really trying to brag about being the Shein of books.... 😮‍💨

[@avsambart]

Hard agree that publishing needs to slow down.

[@sailortwips]

I saw something the other day about how researchers have developed AI to detect breast cancer before it develops and like, that's what we should be using AI for, things that can actually save lives! $16 million for AI books?? Who actually wants this besides the people who can see the potential for profit? Who is benefitting from it outside of them? How many lives could have been saved if that $16 million went towards developing more medical purposes for AI? Or regular medical research, or even just feeding people? Like, why does everything have to be AI generated now? Why can't I Google things anymore and get actual answers without having to add "Reddit" to the end? How has that improved the internet? Why was it needed? It has absolutely made the internet a worse place to be and people were already having trouble discerning real from fake as it was. It's like the new version of tweeting a question you could've googled. I keep seeing it be forced into areas where it wasn't needed and I just don't understand why it's everywhere now (I mean, apart from the obvious not wanting to pay people to do the work...) "We will use it as complimentary to regular audiobooks" yeah, right, it absolutely won't be used to try and cheap their way out of paying audiobook narrators as soon as they can 🙄 /rant 😒

[@impym9033]

The way I paused in my soup eating when you got to the Halloran thing and just... could not move because the secondhand embarrassment just washed over me in what felt like an endless wave. RPF is something that should be kept online, in the dark, where the real people don't have to know it's there if they don't want to know.

[@JessOwens]

Truly. Someone should just find that because they were in the trenches searching for it lol

[@Angbwillinspireu]

I chose not to participate in NANoWriMo for the first time in 10 years, because of their stands on AI. As a visual and written Artist who works organically from my own imagination to create imagery and the written word, I don't support shortcuts that allow individuals to gain any level of visibility, success, notoriety and/or wealth off of Artificial Intelligence output, and claim it to be one's authentic material. It's heightened technological art theft and plagiarism. 💯

[@chellyfishing]

The Spines guy saying “that’s a new concept” is so funny, why do tech bros always think they’ve invented the wheel? They’re so delusional. The term “AI art” always reminds me of that old Holy Roman Empire joke, about how it’s not holy, Roman, or an empire. AI is neither AI nor art. (Well, it is certainly artificial.) Also, god, “published self-insert Hozier fanfic” is so inappropriate. Like if you wanna put that on wattpad, go ahead and live your best life. But to publish it and ADVERTISE IT THAT WAY? Tacky. Tasteless. Remember when that person wrote Taylor Swift/Mr. Taylor Swift fanfic and published it and it got pulled real fast? Why is this more acceptable? Jess, I love to see you go off about things that need to be gone off about, but I also hope you’re protecting your mental health. There’s so much to despair about in the world right now and speaking up about it is important, but I hope that you’re finding ways to balance it with joy. Take care 💖💖

[@JessOwens]

Thank you. I try not to do these videos often bc they make me RAGE lol

[@GoldenOracleArtsLRSTARR]

Thanks for covering this topic. I was nodding my head the whole video because it's an epidemic. I don't want us becoming numb robots. I hope it balances out. 😅

[@hatchet1013]

We gotta stop publishing fanfic about real people, thats just so creepy.

[@CEMonaghanOfficial]

How about we stop publishing fanfic? If you want to become published, you should write your own damn story, tbh.

[@TheRonnieaj]

@@CEMonaghanOfficialI know a lot of authors don’t mind on a site like AO3. I’d think it was a honor that people like my characters that much (to an extent, some people get weird slave fantasies about IR couples, and that creeps me out). Heck, most authors I know write fanfic as well. Keeps the juices flowing when they’re dealing with writers block. Publishing them as an original work? That’s an entirely different story.

[@CEMonaghanOfficial]

@@TheRonnieaj I'm not talking about posting on AO3. I'm talking about publishing books that are just tweaked fanfics.

[@camscornerbooks]

The stress I can hear in Jess’ voice this whole video… Jess I just wanna give you a hug 😭

[@onlyonGraceXM]

We’ve had One Direction Wattpad fanfic published before but there was enough distance between the real thing and the story charas imo that could plausibly be more inspiration than straight-up just the celeb themself with a different name but with the same initial like the Hozier book is doing (again imo). I think it’s a nice premise for a romance, but the distance between the love interest and the REAL LIFE PERSON is So Small that I’m getting the ick even just hearing about it 😭

[@meshinda]

There are so many 8s happening in this Book Communitea with the naming of publishing companies that I had to look into it. From an angel number perspective, 8s mean wealth, success and abundance. Is that something random I looked up? Yes. But also think about it from a capitalist perspective.

[@chellyfishing]

The 8s made me think of something else unfortunately……

[@Frogface91]

Bless you, Jess. I love how much you care, and thank you for continuing to speak up. You know one thing I know for sure you are good at? Communicating clearly and in a captivating way, that's a rare talent ❤

[@SilentSong123]

Exactly authors need time to breath when they write but creatives not just authors are constantly being pushed to the max in the age of AI and nothing is gonna be good if creatives are too exausted to create well

[@HungryEyes-sl3mu]

Is there some hidden connection between the number 8 and AI publishing, cause that number keeps popping up??? I came here epecting the Spines "publishing" news to be the worst thing mentioned, but the Harper Collins/ Microsoft GigaChad abomination is so so worse. I hate it here.

[@marisabelmunoz2246]

Reading goal: read only books written before 2022 if I do not know the author.

[@Luciferwinchester]

I also think that this is somewhat tied to the rise in anti-intellectualism we see in a lot of booktalk spaces. The quality of bookes truly doesn't matter anymore. No one wants to read a work to do in depth analysis, or be challenged. They treat it like a product to consume, the moment the product starts challenging them in some way they drop it. Which creates a market primed for low quality AI slop. Where is the demand for actual literature? for epic poetry?

[@camscornerbooks]

I haaaaaaaate what AI is being used for, basically in every industry. It’s horrible for voice artists, it’s horrible for anyone famous with a notable voice, it’s horrible for people with a recognizable face and cloneable voice, it’s horrible for authors, it’s horrible for artists in every graphic medium, and you’re so right that it’s horrible for just every day people who don’t want to think anymore!!!

[@JulieTheReader]

Everyone needs more education about this. I just read an anecdote of someone trying to tell a kid that ChatGPT is not a search engine after he shared some incorrect “facts” and he wouldn’t believe her since it was something he searched on the internet. (That RPF thing belongs on AO3-it’s also super off putting to classify an aspect of someone’s identity as a trope. Even saying “sexy accents” would be better as a trope because that’s something that appears in various stories. IDK, it’d be like saying “Irish elk” instead of a more generalized phrase like “gentle giant.”)

[@TheRonnieaj]

You should direct them to the lawyers who used chatGPT to draft briefs and it created case law out of thin air. The judge found them in contempt.

[@pauieeepau]

The way you read that published fanfic's synopsis was so funny.

[@SilentSong123]

This is reminding me very much of Bury Your Gays where in the book they used AI to generate an entire human actor that had been dead for years honestly the way these AI companies sre talking we arent that far off from that future (shudders)

[@theresareads]

literally everything you said is how i feel about ai

[@thejenmath]

The way these AI “publishers” are going to tank the real publishing industry because all these AI books are going to be absolute trash. And those who read these trash books are going to then dislike reading even more than they did before, making sure to never buy a book again. They’re dooming the industry.

[@NiaH-ej2rj]

The world just keeps getting worse on every way possible - tech companies don't want people to enjoy a freaking book anymore. A book, you guys.... A... freAKING... BOOK! 😭🤦🏾‍♀️ I hope this shit fails

[@Mariah-KittyCat]

AI literally makes me nauseous 🤮🤮

[@pauieeepau]

Saw another video about AI fiction books and how badly written and edited they are, even when the "author" allegedly edits the books after. Couple that with how AI "artists" don't even notice or edit errors in the "art", this will result in a influx of badly edited incoherent books. What does AI know about stringing a plot and resolving plot points? And the nonfiction books will be full of non-factchecked "facts" if they don't edit them.

[@Yosoybean]

They could hire narrators in other languages. They will use it to justify this today and then tomorrow, they will use it to justify furthering the use of AI to smaller titles/debut authors, and on and on.

[@jaciefagerland7128]

Not me literally getting an AI ad on this video 😭

[@JessOwens]

😖😖

[@twistysunshine]

The thing that kills me as a disabled person is like. AI is also bad. Its bad. Like. I have dyscalculia. I see people say they use it for math. It isnt even good. It hallucinates all the time. Its not a fucking good disability aide. "But what about disability" is the worst excuse. Frankly like, if this thing could take less power, and lie less and only take with permission, and we lived in a society where people werent being fired left or right or even god forbid, where people didnt need to have money to live, then i wouldnt have any problems with AI. But we currently live in reality, where none of those things are true "The industrial revolution came hand in hand with the enlightenment" THAT requires a whole essay in and of itself to prove how thats true and also why they think that industrial revolution specifically created the enlightenment which is what theyre implying. But also. You know what else came hand in hand with the industrial revolution? Child labor. Worker deaths en masse. Colonialism. Polluted skies and waters leading to disease and death for millions. Absolutely wild to pick the one tenuously connected thing (which could have more to do with access to printing presses tbh) that ISNT completely evil and ignore all the other side effects

[@thursday48]

You know the end of There Will Be Blood when Daniel Day Lewis is screaming 'I drink your milkshake' this feels very much like that

[@camscornerbooks]

I love when Jess tells her audience to shut up. Like we all know who she’s talking to and if that’s us or not. It always cracks me up 😂❤

[@jenny_bean]

I felt every emotion alongside you. Hate it here.

[@jaynaraelascaibar6618]

I am here for this level of candor.

[@bicho6313]

Thank you for being properly upset about this. People have become so apathetic, selfish, and senseless it makes everything that's happening so much worse.

[@caprisbookisland]

I work in robotics so I know how expensive all of this probably is. So for them to pay that amount to work with Ai instead of just paying people a livable page wage …. Is insane. But I know in the long run they don’t want to continue to pay people enough so they’re rather foot the robotics bill smh

[@talkingbear]

My hope is that with all this AI bs and slop being produced, there will be an uptake in self pub/indie publishing alongside media (ik it's a big hope but AI is not sustainable nor will it be beneficial to anything)

[@djaystapleton21]

During your video, I got an ad for grammerly. I know thats not the same, but I thought that was hilarious

[@WilderHeart13]

I work as a ghostwriter for spicy romance books and even though I need this job to pay my bills it's really frustrating to be part of the commodification and mass-production of stories (I'm working SO SO HARD to get out of it but I kinda work best from home so please don't hate me). When books are written for the specific purpose of being sold, it's not actually a story worth telling OR reading. That's like buying a meal that doesn't fill you up even a little. What's the point of it? It's not even a matter of junk food versus healthy food, because even junk food serves a purpose (it can improve your mood, even for a short time). A product made so there's a product to sell? What is the point of you but to make money for whoever's at the top?

[@Universalthump]

I’m currently doing math research in uni. I understand that for a lot of students their GPAs can affect future wages so a lot of students go to AI to try and solve their math problems. And you’d think, out of anything that AI could do, it would be good at computing and solving math. This is not the case. Almost 60% of the time it’s wrong because it forgets conceptual basics. If we can’t trust AI to do calculus, I don’t understand how we can expect it to do anything else logically considering math is nearly as logical as we can get. A lot of research in math is spending the majority of your time following logical threads and personally I’ve used it to do this in the same way I might use a research assistant, but almost always I’ll take a college freshman over AI since they can actually learn. To me, this is the way AI should be used. We do the thinking and AI can be used as an assistant in the chug and plug parts of research. Just like the saying it takes 999 mistakes to get something right, I think AI is meant to follow through on our ideas and make mistakes. But ideas remained firmly in humanity’s ballpark. I think the most important things in my life and the things I enjoy in my life all take place as a result of my brain and I can’t imagine why we’ve given up so much of our thinking to computers because I don’t understand what else we would be doing if we aren’t doing the thinking. Like I don’t think we are under threat of computers taking over the world, we’re under threat of CEOs and corporations forgoing the privilege of being human on our behalf.

[@chrissasandlin8344]

So, articles no longer exist? Aren't articles intended to be the provisional, sooner version of books? Not to mention the clock example elides the way that "efficiency" can be misapplied (mistaking improving human effort for conforming to a more mechanistic work style).

[@thebookcorner1072]

I"m a self-published author and I think that using A-I to write books is a really bad idea. Of course no one is going to listen to what I, or anyone else, says. It's all about the money and not the quality. What I will find funny is when bookstores want the author to meet their fans and the publishing house tells them that the author is too busy to meet anyone. Hay, I'm open for meeting fans.

[@sokkkasinstincts]

If Harper Collins is going broke they should get another airport paperback author, like get another John Grisham, rerelease special edition Agatha Christies. AI will die a very slow sad death like NFTs or will taper off like crypto and HC will just look like clowns.

[@alyxbarter3155]

It's instant gratification culture. People want it faster cheaper more more now. You see it everywhere- fast fashion, food, TV, etc. I see it a lot in the horse world. People want to get good fast, and they don't want to do the work to do that, so they buy the expensive horse that makes them look good and then you put them on anything remotely difficult and they fall off. And now it's arrived in publishing, because now it's possible. I don't think it's going to last. Instant gratification is NOT sustainable, and more and more people are getting sick of it. More and more people want to slow down and enjoy quality clothes, quality food, quality books. It's why the good books remain so iconic and still sell, while the newer ones are the Biggest Trend Ever for a few months and then we move on with our lives. Hang in there. It'll get worse before it gets better, but you're not alone. So many people are screaming for change. So many people ARE the change. ♡

[@ikerluz2220]

the fact that they think more books is better than less books just goes to show that they don't much care what's written within them.

[@JessOwens]

👏🏾

[@dana_____]

Aside from that, I’m confused, isn’t AI stuff not copyrightable?

[@camelliaharpdarkthrope6462]

Just started the video but omg what a cute pupper!!

[@teganj9512]

Ugh! Not me getting only AI ads on this video. 😡

[@carole5648]

I'm with you Jess, I hate all of this.

[@quirkygirlreads]

Thank you, Jess. Admittedly I use chatGTP pretty regularly in my day job (as a creative director)... but I will continue to say that AI is like an intern. It can help with remedial work and brainstorming, but it is NOT a replacement for creativity and strategy and human connection. It scares me so much that people are just blinded by this shiny new toy, and not seeing the huge and damaging impact it's having on our world. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, thank you for educating, keep doing what you're doing.

[@Frogface91]

Lol, in that picture of the Spines tech bros it looks like someone's asked AI to create the four guys 😂 Like, is that all the same bloke?!

[@MollyPrewittWeasley]

My accent being a trope seems so weird. Is the author American? I can never trust an American to write an Irish character or book set in Ireland.

[@JessOwens]

I think she is. It’s so strange

[@bookishbutterfly]

There should be more regulations about the use of generated content... As for the Hozier book, it sounds like a cheesy rom-com. Some people like that. Fanfiction can be good. Manacled, soon to be Alchemised, by senlinyu is a favorite of mine.

[@JessOwens]

Oh, I love fan fiction. I just feel when it’s clearly about a real person, to be trad pubbed is kinda strange. Just my thoughts

[@pastellseok4121]

I don't bevlieve AI will have manage to have the full insight what is means to be human, especially under the influence of different factors as ethnicity, place of birth, age, social connections, .... And without that, AI will never be able to write books as well and multi-faceted as humans

[@b.ham.reads2020]

I'm watching this after watching Afraid (the new AI movie now on Netflix) last night. Yeah I'm good without AI. Also this Irish Accent thing....besides not making sense as a trope, how does that help me if I'm not reading the book via audio?

[@zeesummers]

thats a fun title

[@RehnuirRaheem]

I don’t understand why these people don’t use AI to do jobs people don’t want (or is too dangerous to do) instead of encroaching on industries people actually care about and want to work in (art, literature, music, etc).

[@DistinctlyMeFilms]

I think you were thinking about BitCoin & NFTs. Cause yeah NFTs are suddenly nothing now but they were horrible to the environment too.

[@chornayadrakoshig]

"Publishing a book is not a human right" yes! Start a blog! Write a fanfic! Write from a place of passion! I know the economy is shit everywhere but you don't have to use writing as newest "get rich quick" scheme. They usually don't work . Sincerely, a hobbyist writer

[@ChannaryCritiques]

So depressing. It’s going to become a luxury to find something human-created soon.

[@bhsprinkle]

I'm thinking that AI shouldn't be doing everything for people. Keep track of grocery lists & schedule...maybe. Create art, write books, make people's dissertations, solve math for people, use other people's voices...NO. People need to keep their imagination, comprehension, & skills. Nobody needs these things ripped away.