Impact of AI-generated books on sales and future trajectory
Quantify the impact of competition from AI-generated books on the sales of human-authored books and assess whether these effects are likely to increase as AI outputs proliferate and improve.
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Third, what impact does this competition actually have on sales of the books it competes with?… Whatever the effects have been thus far, are they likely to increase in the future, as more and more AI-generated books are written, and as LLMs get better and better at writing human-like text?
— Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers
(Chakrabarty et al., 15 Oct 2025) in Discussion