Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
- View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: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 self-published genre-fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to 2026, matched to daily sales records through June 2026.
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- View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: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 self-published genre-fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to 2026, matched to daily sales records through June 2026.
Sources: Arxiv