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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

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Even here on HN, people are using ChatGPT to write replies. You can spot it by the very verbose answers that don't say anything meaningful. Someone else commented here that AI would raise the noise level everywhere and I unfortunately have to agree.

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If the generated text is mostly correct most of the time, people are just going to stop reviewing it because it's cheaper for them to waste someone else's time than it is to spend their own. Even those that are more diligent are bound to let things slip through the cracks because it's easy to lose concentration in a repeated, monotonous process. When everyone is doing it, it's not really a problem with a particular individual anymore.

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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> irrefutable proof Anything coming directly from a customer is probably refutable. For example, the incentives I normally see are on these little cards they include with the product encouraging reviews in exchange for a gift card or something similar. What's to stop a competitor from falsely reporting it using a fake incentive card they created? Amazon could take your report then actually open the product and see if…

> What's to stop a competitor from falsely reporting it using a fake incentive card they created? Order one themselves, open it up to see if it contains the card.

> Amazon could take your report then actually open the product and see if the incentive card is actually stored with every product. But that's a bigger task than just trusting the proof you sent in.

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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My hope is that the AI content flood will fuel a real revival of literary journals and print magazines full of thoughtful essays and serious book reviews.

and face 2 face discussion forums.

like face the nation etc debates.

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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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.

I thought Low Content Books were more like journals and the like using on-demand printing.

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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Even here on HN, people are using ChatGPT to write replies. You can spot it by the very verbose answers that don't say anything meaningful. Someone else commented here that AI would raise the noise level everywhere and I unfortunately have to agree.

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stop spamming please

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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While LLMs can be prompted to write in many different styles, especially if you allow them to edit a text over multiple passes, the default "voice" of ChatGPT is surprisingly recognizable. For instance, the comment I'm replying to was clearly GPT-generated.

Yeah that’s pretty obvious, and yours sounds a bit like it too, especially starting off with “While…”. I do find it hilarious that the ChatGPT default style sounds very much like how I wrote in high school. I guess I was still training my own language model at that point, so it kinda makes sense.

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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They seem to go out of their way to not give an avenue of reporting these issues.

They would get DoS’ed by people who don’t like certain authors.

Then they should do a better job themselves...

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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Even here on HN, people are using ChatGPT to write replies. You can spot it by the very verbose answers that don't say anything meaningful. Someone else commented here that AI would raise the noise level everywhere and I unfortunately have to agree.

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Very funny (this is either chatGPT or someone writing like it on purpose)

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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Even here on HN, people are using ChatGPT to write replies. You can spot it by the very verbose answers that don't say anything meaningful. Someone else commented here that AI would raise the noise level everywhere and I unfortunately have to agree.

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hahaha

Re: Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

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So many questions: Are these books copyright by Tom Lesley, ChatGPT, OpenAI, ...? Should he share the money with OpenAI, or with the internet? Do we need to update the definitions of plagiarism? So it goes.

This [1] is, to my knowledge, the latest word on who'd own the copyright. And the answer is most likely the author, with the second most likely candidate being nobody. In a nutshell, "AI" generated content itself cannot be copyrighted since the process is carried out by software instead of a human, and software cannot be assigned ownership of copyright. However, material that is sufficiently recombined in a 'creative…

> the answer is most likely the author

So ChatGPT? The book includes unvetted output that was copied verbatim (As an language model blablabla)

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