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What's your cutoff year for reading books? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Given how AI is already polluting the water of literary works, I'm likely never going to read a new book for quite some time, but will just pursue books before 2010.

Is 2010 a good cutoff?

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml -1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

If an AI can produce a book that takes all of human creativity and blows my socks away in weaving a tapestry of storytelling, then that's great. But I don't see AI being used that way. I see AI being used to sell products. I see AI writing a book that sucks you in the first half, and then moralizes you about the dangers of socialism in the second half whilst promoting Wolf Cola

(Interesting about Dumas though, I had no idea. It doesn't ruin the few books I've read of his for me)