Cy on Nostr: Blake Pierce, with no online or offline presence, website does nothing but list his ...
Blake Pierce, with no online or offline presence, website does nothing but list his books, all with template based titles, and very similar cover art that looked like various iterations of an AI image prompt. The photo on his website is of another author named Tyrell Johnson who didn't know his photo was being used by Blake Pierce. None of these books can be found anywhere in Barnes and Nobles, but that company remains mute on why. All audiobook recordings of Blake Pierce are AI generated from synthesized voices. Blake has written 701 books total and 63 novels in 2023.
In addition to Blake Pierce, there are Kate Bold, Molly Black, Fiona Grace, Rylie Dark, Ava Strong, Jack Mars, Taylor Stark, Mia Gold, Audrey Shine, Sophie Love, Ella Swift, Vin Strong and Katie Rush, all of whose names follow the template of "common first name, common noun," none of whom seem to actually exist. Nobody seems to know who is selling these books.
Now, AI cannot write novels. LLMs do word completion, completing the next 5, or 10, or 200 words from their training data, but the more words they complete, the more it drifts away from the original writing from human beings that they're copying from. An AI written novel would quickly devolve into complete surreal nonsense, as they can't figure out what the 134,797th word should be, and so on. It'd be obvious, and absolutely awful.
But an AI can generate 3000 random variations of cover art. AI can write convincing summaries on the back cover. AI can come up with titles that, on casual inspection, don't seem to be randomly generated.
If you bought a book whose cover was AI generated and its contents were gibberish, what would you do?
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In addition to Blake Pierce, there are Kate Bold, Molly Black, Fiona Grace, Rylie Dark, Ava Strong, Jack Mars, Taylor Stark, Mia Gold, Audrey Shine, Sophie Love, Ella Swift, Vin Strong and Katie Rush, all of whose names follow the template of "common first name, common noun," none of whom seem to actually exist. Nobody seems to know who is selling these books.
Now, AI cannot write novels. LLMs do word completion, completing the next 5, or 10, or 200 words from their training data, but the more words they complete, the more it drifts away from the original writing from human beings that they're copying from. An AI written novel would quickly devolve into complete surreal nonsense, as they can't figure out what the 134,797th word should be, and so on. It'd be obvious, and absolutely awful.
But an AI can generate 3000 random variations of cover art. AI can write convincing summaries on the back cover. AI can come up with titles that, on casual inspection, don't seem to be randomly generated.
If you bought a book whose cover was AI generated and its contents were gibberish, what would you do?
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