Australian book publishing in crisis as AI floods market with slop
Australian authors and publishers are warning the industry faces an existential crisis from generative AI, the ABC reports. Local publishers are struggling to filter endless low-quality submissions while tech companies train on copyrighted works without consent.
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What Reddit is saying: Commenters expressed deep frustration at AI slop spreading into children's books, calling uncredited scraping a massive theft of creative labour.
Top comments on r/australia
AI exists to allow the wealthy access to creativity while denying creatives access to wealth.
> Tech companies have already scraped vast amounts of authored work in what a Microsoft executive termed "the largest theft of labour in human history". Ofcourse I knew this, but having it so concisely put has helped give me some perspective.
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