Amazon Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI
Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon’s marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a trend that’s turning out to be a huge headache for human authors.
It’s a growing problem, making it more difficult to distinguish real authors from AI-generated bylines of non-existent writers.
One publisher identified by the WaPo lists dozens of books on Amazon on surprisingly niche topics, with suspicious five-star reviews propping up the operation.
And AI-generated books on Amazon are only the tip of the iceberg, with other AI content flooding the rest of the internet with dubiously sourced material as well, which could easily trigger a pandemic of misinformation.
Worse yet, these misleading signals could end up triggering a feedback loop, with AI text generators regurgitating each other’s content.
