What the fuck kind of human author is publishing 3 BOOKS A DAY?
What the fuck kind of human author is publishing 3 BOOKS A DAY?
Image description: The image shows a Kindle e-reader displaying a page of text, likely from a book, with a portion of the text visible in a non-English language. Overlaid on the image are two text boxes with stylized red backgrounds and white lettering. The top text box says, "To combat chatGPT generated books on the kindle store, Amazon only allows users to publish 3 books ~per day." The second text box sarcastically says, "You know, a totally normal human output," accompanied by a rolling eyes emoji. There is also a graphic of a skeletal hand with a pink hue pointing towards the text boxes, adding emphasis to the message being conveyed about the volume of publication and questioning its normalcy.
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-23)
Just to play devils advocate, maybe there is a author out there who has a stockpile of unpublished books that he's publishing all at once. I mean it could happen.
What gets me though is that if they set the amount that high there had to have been people spamming AI "books" at a rate much greater than that.
Fair-ish, but at the same time I'm hard pressed to imagine how the still insane but also still more reasonable 1 a day would meaningfully put someone in a bind. It's going to take me a whole month to publish these 30 books I've been sitting on, my career as an author is ruined.
It's not uncommon for people who got their start on Wattpad and Royal Road to have 3+ novels of material to publish by the time they feel it's worth it. I suspect this is exactly why the limit was 3 per day tbh, so you can drop a trilogy all together.
That said, there should be daily, weekly, and monthly limits as well. Do something like 3/6/9 and 99% of people will be satisfied.
What gets me though is that if they set the amount that high there had to have been people spamming AI “books” at a rate much greater than that.
I wonder how long it would take for the total number of books written by AI to be bigger than the total number of books ever written by humans.
Maybe Brandon Sanderson publishing short stories?
Chuck tingle.
Legit though, if I was a better typist, didn’t care about editing, and was willing to put out utter shit, I could crank out a book a week.
I have done the rough outline of a novel in a day. One.
That being said, if I were to use amazon to sell them, I have three complete novels and a novella. So I would likely have to split them up over two days, and that would be horrible.
No human is going to be submitting three a day every day for long, unless they’ve been writing for decades.
Garth Marenghi writes faster