Booksellers “carry” utter shit.

Guess what they do when the book is refunded by the publisher due to bad sales? They cut off the covers and send them back as proof. The pages are destroyed. Nobody bats an eye.

No publisher or bookseller wants to carry 50000 copies of Joe Bob’s “How to cook maggots” when it flopped

Also how do you know if my fanfic is a physical book sold at a store or not? 😀

Rare doesn’t automatically imply valuable, useful or anything like that.

My Anthony Fauci x Drowsy Don fanfic is “rare”, but nobody including me would bat an eye if it was destroyed.

Yes, it doesn’t generate funny pictures but they do generate player “stories”, basically synthesising the way players play the game.

And a multimodal LLM can look at the game and “see” if something is wrong. Like “go here in the map, look here and there should be a monster of type X there”.

Yes. And you don’t need “extensive training”, just a way to wire it up to the engine.

League of Legends has been doing ML-based QA and balance testing before it was cool.

“ensure publishers at least do not use generative AI across external services such as marketing materials, platform porting, QA testing”

QA is by far the most AI heavy part of the process at the moment, all the tedious basic checks are offloaded to a process that plays the game 24/7 at breakneck speed.

The actual humans spend time finding issues that “feel” wrong, something AI can’t do because it has no taste.

Unless your QA engineers work for American service industry wages ($2 plus tips), not using AI assisted tooling is just stupid.

EDIT: Love the downvotes from people with ideology but no idea how the sausage is made 💖 If you think I’m wrong, argue with me. But I’m not, I do this for a living.

Beginning February 1, 2027, creators who have 10 million qualified Shorts views over the last 90 days will be eligible for ads and subscription revenue sharing on Shorts.

3.3 million views a month isn’t exactly new creator levels

The problem is partially in capacity.

The manufacturers COULD build more capacity, but if the demand drops suddenly they’d never recoup the costs.

So they jack up the prices as long as someone is willing to buy.

Need to look into your ebook flow.

I… dislike Calibre because of the “unique” UI setup and the fact that it’s next to impossible to self-host on a NAS.

But sadly it has every feature ever, which makes it essential and irreplaceable.