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The most useful aspect of this service would be to prevent people from writing things that people don't want to read. Anything that stops people wasting their time is nice.
No amount of data mining is going to specify the next mold-breaking instant classic, but hopefully it can quantitatively back up a reduction in vampire romance novels, or as the article points out, extremely boringly titled and seemingly boringly written history books.
People do want to read vampire romance novels.
You're not wrong, but there is a vast oversupply of vampire romance novels, to the extent that publishers don't even look at new submissions that fall under that category. So in the interest of matching available talent with market demand, writing vampire romance novels is in almost no one's interest.
Upcoming writers should try to chase trends, then step themselves a foot forwards of that trend. Current trends: interconnection, futorology, threat of conflicts that often don't realize, surveillance, and of course new years day and selfies. : )