[elric]

> as the market gets flooded with LLM-generated garbage

That's already happening, and getting published. Recently read an awful tech book that was obviously generated by an LLM, it was so bad that I reached out to the publisher, who assured me that this was just the author's style, and that they promised no LLMs were involved. All lies, of course.

Apparently publishing awful books can somehow generate revenue.

[codetrotter]

Before LLMs became widespread it was already a bit risky to buy technical books, with some books on Amazon being nothing more than a collection of vaguely related Wikipedia articles collected into a “book”.

And even without that, there are publishers like PacktPub which had a lot of poor quality hand written books. I know because I signed up for this thing where they were giving away a new book every day, and a lot of those books were just so bad. There were some gems in there too, hence why I kept looking at those free books. But I’d say 85 to 90% or more were just not worth even trying to read.

I remain hopeful though that even in the face of LLM generated garbage, quality publishers like O’Reilly and Manning will keep the bar high for what they publish.