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Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic.

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[-] tardigrada@beehaw.org 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Amazon has been having problems with books written by LLMs for almost a year, and it doesn't appear to do anything about it. For example:

These are just two examples, you'll find many more. But people keep buying there and support this business.

[Edit typo.]

[-] moon_matter@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago

From your second link...

The story comes from author Jane Friedman, a veteran writer and academic who woke up to find AI-generated books listed under her name on Amazon.

I don't think AI is the problem here. It's that I can write a book, claim George R. R. Martin is the author and Amazon won't fact check me.

[-] ImADifferentBird@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago

I mean, both are problems.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 5 months ago

"Problems"... how much is Amazon's cut?

[-] sculd@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago

Ah! Typical Amazon

[-] aperson@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

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