r/AskReddit 1d ago

What’s a skill almost everyone thinks they’re good at until they meet someone who’s actually great at it?

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u/dog_cow 21h ago

That's pretty disappointing. But I can one up you there. There's a guy I know who loves AI and has published a book on Amazon that AI wrote for him which he says has earned him a small amount of money (like a few dollars here and there). Then someone asked him if he'd read the book himself and of course I assumed he must have. The answer was no... he has not.

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u/No_Atmosphere8146 12h ago

The twist is that the few copies he's sold are to Anthropic and OpenAI so can they be used as training data.

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u/DeusModus 10h ago

It makes sense.

Why bother to read something that nobody bothered to write?

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u/dog_cow 9h ago

It makes sense alright. But who was the “author” assuming would read the book if he himself wasn’t bothered to read it? An AI book that no one has read serves no purpose. 

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u/Seguefare 9h ago

You know it's filled with glaring errors. I've listened to too many AI stories, and names can change, new characters added at random, entire relationship swaps, and that's before you get to plot holes, contrived situations that could be solved with one discussion, irrational decisions, etc.

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u/dog_cow 9h ago

I bet. I should clarify my colleague‘s book was supposedly non fiction.