Artificial intelligence has made the dream of publishing a book easier to achieve than ever. It has also led to a surge in what some call “digital slop,” creating new hurdles for publishers, editors, and authors.
Insiders warn that the influx of AI-authored content is leading to market saturation and declining visibility for human authors.
Last year, more than half of novelists surveyed by the University of Cambridge in the UK expressed fear that their work would be replaced entirely by AI. And one Seoul-based publisher released about 9,000 books in one year, raising suspicions that most were AI-created to some degree, according to a February report in the Korea Times….