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The main thing AI does is kill off blind purchases of ebooks from unknown authors. Reputable publishers won't be publishing and bookstores won't be stocking AI generated books so it's mainly an ebook problem.

The way to successfully write a book as an unknown author without a major publisher intent on making you famous is already to build a social media following[0] then leverage your social media following to promote your book.If nobody's heard of you, self publishing a book has always been a waste of your time. It's just even moreso now because somebody is using the BS generator to write fake books and flood Amazon with them.

[0]: This doesn't just mean writing social media posts but could also involve things like getting published by magazines, doing podcasts, appearing on TV or even just doing Twitter Spaces. The point is to be a known figure by your target audience before you write a book.