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A random thought

With people now using AI to create stories and books, is it even worth writing anything anymore?

If someone is looking to publish, it seems kind of futile since, much like anything that becomes a quick buck maker (thinking of all the people who saturated the markets with vinyl stickers produced with circuit, anything that can be quickly mass produced for cheep by anyone), the book industry will just become saturated with people publishing low quality AI created books. This greatly affects self publishing authors because they will be the first to be in direct competition with these AI books.

I mean, it won't affect me because I decided a while ago any writing I do will be for me and those I wish to share it with and not for mass audiences. But I have to think that the organic writing will eventually be made irrelevant and undesireable as people use AI like 1000 monkeys at typewriters.
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This applies to writing, visual arts, and music, our AI future is quite depressing

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It doesn't matter if an author never offered books in digital format, an AI company has already digitized printed books to train its models

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/


I've even seen people here on SW, where I'd paste their About Me text (for example) into half a dozen different AI content detection sites, and every site said it was AI-generated prose ... we're coming to a time where no one will ever again be able to believe anything they see or hear as being authentic. Deception is the new normal. Who TF asked for this???

And that's not even broaching the topic of the long-term existential to threat to humanity posed by AI. If Stephen Hawking thought AI could exterminate us, A) I believe him and B) I wonder why the hell every greedy tech bro startup seeking to profit off AI is finding no regulatory impediments or outright bans whatsoever. Then the energy and watef footprint of AI is (or should be) well known by now, making some idiots say we need more nuclear fission power plants to satisfy the booming needs of new data centers (never mind crypto mining businesses who offer noting of value at all to society).

We are such an effed up species, honestly we deserve extinction.