[bryanlarsen]

The market for books has been flooded far before AI. Millions of books are published each year, many more self published and unpublished. Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crud) predates AI by many decades.

You need a mechanism to filter out the crud. There are many, some better than others.

[nancarrow]

90% of crud filtering mechanisms are crud.

[bryanlarsen]

Even worse, it changes over time. Goodreads used to be great, but have gone down hill since Amazon bought them. Friends are great sources, but your interests diverge.