This was an inevitable outcome of ChatGPT/LLMS, no? I expect to see a lot more of this by a lot of different people. I feel like a ton of the examples I’ve seen to date are effectively regurgitating Stack Overflow (sometimes verbatim!) and in a kind of abstract way, I feel like this is exactly the same as someone opportunistically publishing a bunch of auto-generated books… publishing a model trained on a bunch of web sites is effectively re-publishing these web sites with a different interface.
Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
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Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#12All the books have approximately the same number of reviews. Is Amazon completely uninterested in dealing with fake reviews?
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#13Curiously most of the books have 31 reviews. And for those that have written reviews all of the Reviewers have names with the capitalization: "John smith", "First last".
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#14All the books have approximately the same number of reviews. Is Amazon completely uninterested in dealing with fake reviews?
More positive reviews = more sales. They are not just uninterested in dealing with fake reviews, their algorithms reward products with positive reviews regardless of their authenticity. Of course if you report it, they eventually deal with it, as long as it is required by some law.
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#15This is comedy
From one review: “ One paragraph starts with "As an AI language model I can't....". Unfortunately we don't have an AI who can correct a book written by an AI. Fortunately I can send it back.”
Sauce:
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B0BWVH451G/ref=acr_dp...
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#16This can't be bringing in much more than beer money, though, right? There aren't many reviews, so I can't imagine too many people are buying these.
I guess not, but considering he can "write" 10 books a month, it might be worth it anyway...?
There is a whole industry called "Low Content Books (on Amazon)". In short, this resembles hosting a somewhat successful blog.
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#17This was an inevitable outcome of ChatGPT/LLMS, no? I expect to see a lot more of this by a lot of different people. I feel like a ton of the examples I’ve seen to date are effectively regurgitating Stack Overflow (sometimes verbatim!) and in a kind of abstract way, I feel like this is exactly the same as someone opportunistically publishing a bunch of auto-generated books… publishing a model trained on a bunch of we…
It is the same, yes. Right now the way I see it is that we are off-loading noise generation from humans to AIs; it's not that noise didn't exist before, it's just probably going to come more frequently and in a less-recognizable way.
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#18So, the future is now!
Now anyone lazy enough (to even not remove the phrase "As an AI language model I can't..." from the generated text) can "write books". And these "books" will be fundamentally plagiarism and a bunch of trivia by design.
Isn't that wonderful?
It certainly is wonderful!
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#19If you want to learn more about this business model, search for "Low Content Books (on Amazon)".
Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
#20Some tree was chopped to print this garbage. Think about it.