AI-generated content from models like Gemini will undermine the commercial viability of published books and author earnings, threatening the publishing industry's business model
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
"Some ARMYs questioned the idea of using an AI chatbot to navigate emotional or relationship-related concerns... One user wrote, 'multimillionaire and he can't afford a real therapist?' And then there was the fan who simply wrote, 'and suddenly i lost the last pieces of interest in them.'"
"Reports suggest that Google delayed the launch of Gemini Pro 3.5 after it fell short of internal benchmarks. A setback on the model side makes that spending harder to justify."
"Gemini could generate "a 100-page murder mystery set in a quiet seaside town filled with secrets, that substitutes for an original copyrighted murder mystery on which Gemini trained" in 20 minutes for 39 cents. "No publisher or author can compete with that.""