Yep, this is precisely why I didn't come to the book club - I tried reading a few chapters of this generic drivel in the bookshop, but the book was so empty, pointless and synthetic that I felt I was reading AI slop.
Philosophical question: Which alternative is more depressing?
A) The "author" used AI to generate this book because she can't write;
B) The author actually wrote this book, in the sincere conviction that it told a worthwhile story and did it well (or well enough);
C) The author wrote this book on order, with its (ghastly) message as part of the specifications: "Glorify the commercialization of the human interior mind, in preparation for The Coming of the Matrix. All hail our CEO!"
Excellent question! When something is this bad I'm tempted to say it hardly matters - if she writes in such an automatic, generic way, vomiting out undigested platitudes, the author is virtually robotic already. And of course it's entirely possible that the truth is composed of all three of your possibilities: precisely because she's an unimaginative drone, the 'author' was pleased to use the latest ai 'writing assistant' to help spew out this garbage, and sincerely thought this garbage was good enough. And for the same reason unreflectively regurgitated the oppressive, commercial ideology that she swims in - South Korea is an aggressively consumerist and conventionalising society, after all.
Yep, this is precisely why I didn't come to the book club - I tried reading a few chapters of this generic drivel in the bookshop, but the book was so empty, pointless and synthetic that I felt I was reading AI slop.
Philosophical question: Which alternative is more depressing?
A) The "author" used AI to generate this book because she can't write;
B) The author actually wrote this book, in the sincere conviction that it told a worthwhile story and did it well (or well enough);
C) The author wrote this book on order, with its (ghastly) message as part of the specifications: "Glorify the commercialization of the human interior mind, in preparation for The Coming of the Matrix. All hail our CEO!"
Excellent question! When something is this bad I'm tempted to say it hardly matters - if she writes in such an automatic, generic way, vomiting out undigested platitudes, the author is virtually robotic already. And of course it's entirely possible that the truth is composed of all three of your possibilities: precisely because she's an unimaginative drone, the 'author' was pleased to use the latest ai 'writing assistant' to help spew out this garbage, and sincerely thought this garbage was good enough. And for the same reason unreflectively regurgitated the oppressive, commercial ideology that she swims in - South Korea is an aggressively consumerist and conventionalising society, after all.