AI Self-Publishers Have Ruined Books Forever

Drew Lowe
2 min readApr 17, 2024

We have reached the stage in the history of publishing where AI-generated books are hitting the shelves.

The other day, I was in Barnes & Noble, puttering through the technology section. I was shocked to see a book on the shelf about prompt engineering. Unlike computer engineering, structural engineering, or chemical engineering, prompt engineering isn’t an actual discipline.

Yet somehow, there was a 400-page manual right there on the shelf.

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