Why do people continue to put out such garbage, obviously AI-generated books? Do they think it's not painfully obvious? I guess it ain't because sometimes people are still reading and reviewing them apparently without catching onto the scam. Please vote for any terrible AI slop books you encounter, at least this will provide some warning to the masses who haven't caught on to the look of them yet.
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The intention of this list is to identify books that show strong indications of generative AI use in their creation, from cover images to the writing itself. There are well-established frequent common denominators in AI books, including use of AI image generators and stereotypical text patterns; these are the basis for identifying a book as AI generated or "AI slop." This is to alert readers who do not want to unintentionally encounter AI is book spaces. If users are comfortable with generative AI use in the books they might choose, labelling books like this will not deter them.
Before adding a book to this list, please be sure you are familiar with the output of generative AI when it comes to book content. If you're not already well-versed, read some established AI books to learn the patterns, and see collections of AI-generated images (e.g. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...) to familiarize yourself with the look of such things. One potentially useful guide to spotting typical AI writing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped.... Any books voted here certainly must have been published after the public release of generative AI tools; the onslaught of AI slop books mostly started only late 2023, and ChatGPT's image generator, which dominates AI book illustration since its release, launched at the end of March 2024.
If an author objects to a book's inclusion on this list and genuinely did not use generative AI in any way, shape, or form, they can comment here and users may re-examine the book in question. Keep in mind: if it walks and talks and quacks like a duck .... "AI generated" in this case refers to any output that is typical of generative AI, no matter how much the publisher may believe they contributed to the work through complex AI prompting. And if your book reproduces stereotypical patterns at a frequency that is usually only seen in AI slop, you might want to think about that.
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The intention of this list is to identify books that show strong indications of generative AI use in their creation, from cover images to the writing itself. There are well-established frequent common denominators in AI books, including use of AI image generators and stereotypical text patterns; these are the basis for identifying a book as AI generated or "AI slop." This is to alert readers who do not want to unintentionally encounter AI is book spaces. If users are comfortable with generative AI use in the books they might choose, labelling books like this will not deter them.
Before adding a book to this list, please be sure you are familiar with the output of generative AI when it comes to book content. If you're not already well-versed, read some established AI books to learn the patterns, and see collections of AI-generated images (e.g. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...) to familiarize yourself with the look of such things. One potentially useful guide to spotting typical AI writing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped.... Any books voted here certainly must have been published after the public release of generative AI tools; the onslaught of AI slop books mostly started only late 2023, and ChatGPT's image generator, which dominates AI book illustration since its release, launched at the end of March 2024.
If an author objects to a book's inclusion on this list and genuinely did not use generative AI in any way, shape, or form, they can comment here and users may re-examine the book in question. Keep in mind: if it walks and talks and quacks like a duck .... "AI generated" in this case refers to any output that is typical of generative AI, no matter how much the publisher may believe they contributed to the work through complex AI prompting. And if your book reproduces stereotypical patterns at a frequency that is usually only seen in AI slop, you might want to think about that.
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3 voters ·
list created March 6th
by Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* (votes) .
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S. Jigoku wrote: "Something I find particularly depressing and annoying is how much of this AI slop seems to be peddled as "educational" books or at children."Yes! That is the absolute worst of it all. You might be interested in a couple other lists I've made:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...





Of course. No one asked for it; everybody hates seeing it, except the AI bros pumping out its material and students using it to cheat in school.
To be clear this is specifically about generative AI, and particularly in book places. AI more broadly has current and potential important use cases in science and medicine, but this ChatGPT, LLM crap has done far more harm than good. The only exception that comes to mind is its use as an artificial therapist, for those who don't have access to human therapy (it's expensive and can be hard to find) and I won't begrudge people any solace and perceived support they have received from such. But then there's the people it's encouraged to commit suicide...