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Finnucanetoday at 5:15 PM1 replyview on HN

Makes sense. Self-help books are kinda the human slop of the publishing business. Easily replaced by AI slop? Probably.


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cjs_actoday at 6:51 PM

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).

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