I dropped Grammarly when they started shoveling AI at us. I dropped ProWritingAid when they started calling themselves AI. And publishers like this are using your text to train their AI. I made the mistake of buying some marketing, then found out afterward that my manuscripts were fed to an AI to generate summaries for the design team drafting the ads. As nice as that sounds on the surface, the AI was owned by Amazon, who absolutely *WILL* be using that data to train an AI on writing techniques.

I'd avoid anyone claiming AI is involved in the process. Right now the business world is obsessed with gathering all the data to train their AIs. Don't let your creative output be stolen by these assholes for their training sets. How to avoid them? Hire human editors and self-publish. Yes, that process takes time and money, but you either do that, or you become part of the training set that will eventually replace humans from the seeds of creativity to the published works.

Just because I sound paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get us.

If there are paying customers for all those books that may (or may not be) generated and/or edited by AI... then great! But... I suspect the value of the written-word has fallen dramatically in the last few years---what's the average return on an average book on amazon? Probably too low to bother for most people, unless you can turn out a dozen books a day... which may be the whole point, until even that market dries up.

Yes, obviously the reason I don't read more is because I can't find a good one from the 275,000 titles released every year in the United States...so the obvious solution to get me to read more and spend more money on books is to swamp the market with AI-generated garbage while throwing a pittance to people who used to be employed as writers.

We are really taking inspiration from 1984 this time - a passage about a woman singing a Party Music Department generated song:

> "But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of children in the street, and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen."

> "It was only a hopeless fancy, It passed like an April day, But a look and a word and the dreams they stirred They have stolen my heart away."

I usually read what the authors credit their editors with. More often than not, there are major suggestions, based on a deep understanding of what story the author wants to tell. "AI" cannot make those. Better pay a real editor.

> Independent publisher Canongate condemned the company for automating book production "with the least possible attention, care or craft."

Entry barriers to printing and publishing dead-tree books still seem pretty high, and anything that lowers them is probably going to gain traction in the short term. In the long term though, this could whore the book publishing market even further. OTOH, it might democratize the market. And sadly, maybe both of those possible outcomes are effectively synonymous. As for "attention, care or craft", those are luxuries in the eyes of someone whose choice is between foregoing those niceties and not being publish