[paxys]

Self publishing is already 90% trash that you have to wade through to find a gem. LLMs will maybe make it 95% trash. So overall bad for the industry, yes, but not as game changing that people are making it seem.

[ZiiS]

If it was worth a human spending weeks writing the 90% trash. LLM make it economical for 99.999999% to be trash by next year.

[johngossman]

Most writers write because they want to write and think they have something to say. Very, very few make money. Ted Chiang made this point in the lecture I linked to elsewhere in this thread

[coffeebeqn]

I doubt it was monetarily worth it before expect for a handful of people with a following from somewhere like a blog