Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name(theguardian.com)

Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/09/amazon-removes-books-generated-by-ai-for-sale-under-authors-name

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The entire Kindle market is breaking-down, as scam publishers are producing fake books with AI-generated text (admittedly a step-up from the previous trend of simply generating randomized text for 200-300 pages), or outputting classic titles that are out of copyright using the Gutenberg file or even poorly-produced OCR, and then charging anything from one or two dollars up to double figures.

The problem is that if you're trying to get a specific copy of a classic title (say one with footnotes or an informative introduction), then there's almost no way of telling what you're going to get, as all the reviews are just haphazardly bundled together for a book with the same title - some of them warning about missing chapters, or crazy OCR mistakes, while others are praising the quality of the hardbound covers.

Blows my mind that Amazon don't care any longer about selling fake hardware of every type, but even something as simple and controllable for them as Kindle books has become a shitshow of scams and fakes as well.