South African author Coral Hart defends using AI to publish 370 books in 20 months amid criticism and death threats. Read more at straitstimes.com.
  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 小时前

    Could not edit even close to 50 books in that amount of time, let alone write them.

    Clown author.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 小时前

    Imagine her in a book club and her own book comes up. Bet you she won’t even recognize it, or know what it’s about.

  • Turbidity Von Advection Fog@pawb.socialEnglish
    201·
    16 小时前

    There is nothing to defend, she didn’t create anything. She generated slop using an aggregation + prediction engine that uses stolen data to mathematically produce an average of that stolen data. I know what she did is precisely nothing, use none of her mind, didn’t use ANY creative effort to making an actual story with a single one of those books. She is not an author, just another slopper that is trying to capitalize on the gold rush. AI Boosters might try to shout me down, but I know I am right about this. As Software can’t feel horny or sad, it will never be able to create a real story with meaning and passion. It will just create Slop. Full stop.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    63·
    20 小时前

    Me, starting to read the story: “I bet this will be romance novels”

    Me, after reading the story: “Yep…romance novels”

    My two three thoughts are that even the sloppiest of AI slop is likely to be better than most bargain bin romance novels. Their prose has always been shit. They were full of spelling errors, plot holes and copy/paste duping where sometimes it was the same book with only the names of people and towns changed.

    Second: I hate to admit it, but her method (outlined in the story) is solid. She also combines it with her publishing knowledge in order to best target her “books”.

    Third: This is unsustainable, and she knows it, which is why she is pivoting from the “slop slinger” grift to the “you too can be a slop slinger with my app and method” grift.

    PS: She’s not an author. She’s a grifter.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      23·
      19 小时前

      Third: This is unsustainable, and she knows it, which is why she is pivoting from the “slop slinger” grift to the “you too can be a slop slinger with my app and method” grift.

      That’s a really good point, actually. If this was a good method for writing stories people will actually buy and enjoy, she wouldn’t tell anyone.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 小时前

        Perplexity is running an ad saying that anyone can use their AI to make slop videos and make thousands a month on the video platforms with zero effort…

      • frunch@lemmy.world
        12·
        18 小时前

        That is a good point. She figured out how to “sell shovels” during the “AI gold rush”

    • deeprlyeh@lemmus.orgEnglish
      11·
      19 小时前

      I worked in a book store ages ago, romance sells the most by far, often having the largest section.

      But there is always way more books that can be sold or read. Even before AI.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    11 小时前

    Haven’t courts ruled that you can’t copyright AI generated work? Couldn’t we just copy her slop word for word and re-sell it?

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 小时前

      They have ruled works wholly constructed without human input are not subject to copyright.

      However in those cases the humans explicitly stated they had not influenced the output in any way. If a human claims they modified it, then the modified work can be subject to copyright. Good luck disproving a human assertion that they modified it.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    12·
    20 小时前

    Some people will buy anything. I was a “Pet Rock” and “Mood Ring” guy back in the 1970’s. P.T. Barnum was right for sure.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    102·
    19 小时前

    I usually don’t like to comment on people’s appearance. I’m in my 40s and I’m no looker. But hell… at least i don’t look like a fucking zombie