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For AI written content I have a very low tolerance. I bounce right away when I notice I'm reading generated content, especially if it tries to be an essay or anything else than direct answer to my question at hand.

When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022 unless there is a strong recommendation by someone close.

As for genres, it has made me read less purely technical books. My assumption is that I can learn enough of the subject as I go by chatting with a model.

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That's funny, I actively seek out books written post 2022, because I enjoy the injection of AI related humor and commentary that some authors include.

Similar to how movies now include texting dialogue sometimes, it's now part of art to imitate life. I imagine modern film has couples who met through AI now and so on.

Generated content in of itself doesn't really bother me at all. I prefer to judge based on editorial effort. It's pretty easy to tell when someone accepted the first one or two-shot attempt versus carefully crafting a particular narrative and vibe. Even if they didn't technically contribute a single word to the final output.

Judging content based on how it was produced feels like judging a sculptor based on the material they chose rather than the craftsmanship that went into projecting what was in their mind onto the material.

> When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022

This is how civilizations end… Like we are done writing books now? Art too? We gonna stop here? Not sure I understand how this makes any sense…

>>This is how civilizations end.

I concur. It doesn't make any sense.

One guys stops reading post 2022 books and civilization will end?

Everyone has their own standards. There are people not reading post 1900 books for a while and we still have new books. Let people live by their own rules ffs

No! The civilization won't end because one guy stopped reading books but it might be very very bad for the civilization if people stopped producing original work because AI disincentivized it.

Go to a bookstore or a library. Don't buy unknown crap from Amazon publishing.

People continue making amazing art and surely keep writing.

Slop is however flooding the space. I think at this point curation and trusting existing sources is crucial.

IMHO, not the fault of those reading, but of those "writing".

>>When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022

I like that and that's what i have been doing.

Do you go by the feels that the content you are reading is AI generated?

Curious if you feel that mainstream publishing has been infiltrated by AI content? I’d imagine the old school publishing houses are going out of their way to filter out AI chum. Especially in fiction.

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