Technology & AIJul 22, 2026
Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost.
Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial weight. We test that assumption with full-text AI detection across 14,419…
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