Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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An AI-generated imitation of her book appeared on Amazon, in an apparent scheme to profit off her work..

WIRED asked deepfake-detection startup Reality Defender to analyze the ersatz version of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, and its software declared the book 99 percent likely AI-generated..

While we allow AI-generated content, we don't allow AI-generated content that violates our Kindle Direct Publishing content guidelines, including content that creates a disappointing customer experience, Amazon spokesperson Ashley Vanicek says.. But Mitchell is far from the only AI researcher apparently targeted using the same technology they work on..

Pioneering computer scientist Fei-Fei Lis new memoir The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery in the Age of AI has over a dozen different summaries come up when you search for the book on Amazon...

AI-generated summaries sold as ebooks have been dramatically increasing in number, says publishing industry expert Jane Friedmanwho was herself the target of a different AI-generated book scheme..

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