We learned this week that Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI, but some fear that AI is also destroying the future of literature. There's been a boom in poor-quality AI-generated children's books, and parents and artists are getting increasingly concerned.
On social media, people complain of nonsensical children's literature in shops and libraries, while parents have received AI storybooks featuring their own children as unwanted gifts. In most cases, the books are shoddily made with little thought or respect given to the product or its audience.