arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.CY2026-07-22
Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu, Jane C. Ginsburg, Paramveer Dhillon
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-pub…