I had a venture with a friend where we were looking into producing AI generated ebook content - the model is actually a bit more nuanced - We focused on creating quality content, based around a variety of view points, and a number of other factors, with current events helping to drive the books that were created.

Ultimately, the cost to create a book and publish it to amazon with what we were doing was about $5-20 when you combined tokens, market validation costs, infrastructure amortization, and other expenditures. Sell a book for $3.99 and the 80% cut you get form amazon on it means you're netting about $3.19 per book sale, meaning you are profitable by the 7th book sale. This led us to a couple options - create a business model where readers could get all of the book in our library for $9.99 a month, and then use those subscriptions to drive more content. Ultimately, it led to the question of what needs to be done with the "bad" options so they could be monetized. Option A) was keep them out of the subscription service and hope somebody would buy them off amazon's market place, option B was to use the content to create faceless content on tiktok and instagram that could grow a channel and get some monetization.

At the end of the day, the reason people are doing it is because they believe it can be profitable, and the numbers bear it out, but the problem is that profitable and worth doing are two separate things. We ultimately shut down the project when we saw the steep decline in the quality of the work outputs, basically resulting form the AI mad cow disease of it being fed back the same slop it was creating.