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by Finnucane 5 hours ago
Makes sense. Self-help books are kinda the human slop of the publishing business. Easily replaced by AI slop? Probably.
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To be (slightly) more charitable to the genre and to AI, self-help books are a blog post's worth of content padded out to look worthy of the sticker price, so LLMs provide a fair bit of value in extracting the signal from the noise (assuming they do it accurately).
also assuming there's signal in that noise...