Comment by hk__2
All I’m saying is that it’s really not as easy as your comments make it sound like. The problem with citing successful writers is the selection bias: you see only the successful cases and not the millions of failures.
If it were easier than before to sell books, we would see it in the data, but it’s the opposite: the market is oversaturated, and it’s harder now than before. There are 10 times more books published today than 20 years ago, and yet the overall profits made by book industry declined by almost 40% since that time (source: link in previous comment).
Maybe you are right. My comments make it sound like it is easy to do, but actually I said it was not as difficult as before. You don't have to travel far and much to get a worldview, now the world has become a global village thanks to the internet.
Market is oversaturated because of awful books being published every year and it will surely become supersaturated with AI authors.
That's why I gave the example of Pieter - link in the parent comment. He self-published his e-book to bypass the oversaturated market and was recently invited by Lex Fridman on his podcast.