I don’t see a world in which this doesn’t just annihilate the current market for books.

If I can write a query into Amazon for a book on topic X, I can write that query into ChatGPT or whatever and cut out the middleman.

Some of this may work in the short term while some people still equate the format “book” with “went through a rigorous process”.

That erosion was underway before AI (e.g. on Amazon I instinctually ignore any self-published Kindle books), but I can’t imagine this will last.

I think/hope the market will somehow make human-written books easy to recognize.