He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon
The article premise is relatively banal, but the topic the article describes after, is extremely important (IMO).<p>This bits:<p>> Several companies defended their use of AI, telling The Post they use language tools not to replace human writers, but to [...], or to produce content that they otherwise wouldn’t<p>> We published a celebrity profile a month. Now we can do 10,000 a month.<p>describe an undergoing mass-transition of (a large amount of) publishing towards a commodity.<p>Cheap publishing has always existed, but it required somebody to actually write something, therefore, a minimum of creativity/knowledge has always been a requirement. With LLMs, any requirement is gone; publishing can be reduced to sending an input and checking the output.<p>"Interesting" times!