Fake AI-Generated Books Swarm Amazon

Fake book mills were a problem before AI, but this is going to put it into overdrive. It sucks because things like Kindle allowed me to publish my works without cost. Spam like this delegitimizes Kindle, which should concern Amazon, as well as self-publishing in general. I've published two books, and I would hate to be associated with the fakers and the spammers.

not a book and not AI, but a similar 'copying thing happened to a neighbor here years ago. A high-design, high-value iPhone app for photographers.. a year to make it and excellent reviews, including influential photographers from National Geographic. After some initial success, a new app, with the same name but the words in a different order, same GUI, and fewer features and less accuracy in certain situations.. appeared on the Apple app store. The cost was the same low cost as many other consumer apps, not the premium price asked for the original. No answer from Apple, no way to block search results that found the imitator.. sales fell, and then eventually to almost nothing. followup story is that the author of the high quality app has given up, had health problems, is not able to work the number of hours previously and has bills to pay.

This is a big problem, especially for people new to a field who can't easily tell AI-gen books from human-authored ones.

It also saturates the recommendation system, massively lowering the quality of recommendations that you get for a quality book. This used to be great, because it helped discover other high quality titles. Now, I'm conditioned to automatically skip the list of recs on the basis of it being mostly useless.

I disagree with the premise of the possibility of a “fake” book. There could certainly be entirely AI-generated books, but the book is itself the collection of pages. It’s a real book regardless of how the content was generated.

Now to address the nuance and implication: does human effort imply value? Well, hopefully anyone reading this is capable of setting aside fear and ego and seeing the truth. The fact is, more effort is not always worth more. Granted, we may not be at the point that zero effort AI-generated content is equal in quality (and thus, worth in the eyes of a content consumer) but we’re getting there and we’ll be there soon. There’s no point in fighting it, and there’s even less point in trying to fight it by feigning ignorance and being stubborn about romantic concepts like rewarding hard work. I’m right there with you when it comes to concern about what the future holds, and I don’t have the answers, but the way to survive is to face reality boldly and candidly and be ready to adapt.

Bit of a tangent but hopefully someone got something out of that