Last May I wrote about the first known example of a book on Amazon having to vie in search results with an AI-generated ripoff. It seemed like an ominous harbinger.
Just 10 months later, it has become the norm. Here's my latest on the "explosion" of AI book spam, how Amazon is tentatively grappling with it, and why authors are already fed up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/amazon-ai-fake-books-authors/
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