"So here’s what I would love: A bookstore for humans by humans. A Humazon.com. Or even just a BookBud recommendation service where the authors are fully vetted (they’re your buds!)."

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To do what the author of this post asks for is incredibly difficult. You can't reliably use a LLM to detect the output of other LLM's. You can't trust user reviews to distinguish AI from human writers because AI can easily produce reviews. You'd basically need to form a central gate-keeping authority that decides who is allowed and who isn't. This would be resource intensive and fraught with problems. (e.g. How many authors would sue if they were blocked as the result of a false positive? How many using LLM's to write their material would brazenly sue for being blocked too?)

It really bothers me that one of the biggest problems with LLM's is how difficult it is to filter out what they produce.

This is a remarkably magnanimous and even-tempered post. Most authors (e.g. Charlie Stross) really hate AI, feel personally affronted by it, and lose their cool when they talk about it.

I agree with Howey's sentiments. AI-written books aren't bad in themselves -- they're not ontologically bad -- but they tend to be, by their very nature, derivative. Narrative quality is, as yet, still quite poor. And self-publishing on Amazon.com is full of that stuff. (I've long since stopped buying self-published stuff on Amazon on account of low-quality content, and Amazon's review system seems severely broken.)

Humazon would be a welcome thing. Or even a "human written" flag for books on Amazon.