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Originally Posted by Graham44
So as long as you can get what you want it doesn't matter what the people in the industry are facing? As long as your enjoyment isn't impacted?
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Yes. Much like I don't care what Big Vegetable is facing when I buy my radishes.
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Originally Posted by Graham44
The fact that AI could throttle the ability for new authors to be discovered doesn't matter as long as the authors you already like can carry on publishing?
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Could throttle the ability for new authors to be discovered..." You'll pardon me if I don't take these dire warnings of publishers (whose raison d'être has been to throttle the ability of new authors to be discovered for
centuries) at face value.
But it's not even that. "Authors I like" is not really a thing I relate to. I don't get hung up on having favorite authors. All authors tend to eventually bore me if they write enough books; and I read them too quickly. So no, I don't really care if authors I'm currently reading don't have long term success. New ones write good books all the time. I'll read those.
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Originally Posted by Graham44
If that's genuinely how you feel well fair enough I guess - but if AI did begin to effect your enjoyment of reading in the future would you then care and start to worry about AI ruining the industry?
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If, if, if. I prefer to not jump to the conclusion that the sky is falling when there's no real evidence that it is. Humans are still writing and you and I are still reading their work. Is that not enough?