Once you find one author with an AI-generated face and potential AI-generated books, Amazon will helpfully direct you to more

Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic.

Archive link, so you don’t have to visit Substack: https://archive.is/hJIWk

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Amazon has been having problems with books written by LLMs for almost a year, and it doesn’t appear to do anything about it. For example:

AI Detection Startups Say Amazon Could Flag AI Books. It Doesn’t (Sep 2023)

A new nightmare for writers shows how AI deepfakes could upend the book industry—and Amazon isn’t helping (August 2023)

These are just two examples, you’ll find many more. But people keep buying there and support this business.

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“Problems”… how much is Amazon’s cut?

Ah! Typical Amazon

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From your second link…

The story comes from author Jane Friedman, a veteran writer and academic who woke up to find AI-generated books listed under her name on Amazon.

I don’t think AI is the problem here. It’s that I can write a book, claim George R. R. Martin is the author and Amazon won’t fact check me.

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I mean, both are problems.

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