I wonder if you wrote a few seed pages per chapter on a contentious topic like ‘Why Bill Gates is funding the Coronavirus vaccine - and the answer is not good’ and released that book to a certain demo what your sales would be.
Yes, I agree, there's a lot of potential here to generate controversial and fairly fake content.
I've only spent a month playing with gpt2 and gpt3, and technical literature, historical, and political content all seemed very viable for mass production with AI.
I used the tools I posted above to get GPT-3 output. Editors can range from Fivver prices to $50k for a real novel.