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VampireCoyote posted...

within the decade AI are going to be writing books better than anything humans have ever written

Not with the current paradigm, which is to study examples of existing writing and recombine it to create something passable. Fundamentally, it can't create anything new or better than what already exists.

That said, the vast, vast majority of books that sell aren't the best books ever written. That's always going to be true, by simple virtue of how few "best books ever" there are. AI doesn't have to be better than all human writers, it just has to be good enough that the average consumer won't mind the shortcomings to enough of an extent to stop them from buying AI-generated books. At that point, writing as a profession is dead. No publisher is going to waste money on a human author that has a small chance of writing something that will sell better than AI books when - in the same amount of time and for a tiny fraction of the cost - they could have an AI produce dozens of books that will sell just fine.

Bonus points where the likely outcome there is that aspiring writers will just end up self-publishing on a smaller scale as a hobby, and AI's will end up studying the successful ones and ultimately incorporating them into something publishers will be able to make far more money from.