Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

Post by duskwuff » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

wincy wrote: post #55

lxgr wrote: post #8

Not just books. I remember seeing a "movie" on Amazon (not sure if it was Prime or some other service I was subscribed to). It was called "how to pronounce 'Stranger Things'", and the total length was about 10 seconds. I'll leave the plot to your imagination.

Reminds me of when I was trying to figure out the pronunciation for “synedoche” and got this as the top YouTube results. https://youtu.be/v-n1vGeVIXo

Post by johnyzee » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #60

nsypteras wrote: post #20

I'm pretty sure the ads displayed on my Kindle are all for AI generated children's books lately. It's actually kind of fun looking at them to find the AI generated artifacts (e.g little girl building snowman has three fingers, etc.) Not sure who's actually buying these things...

The other day I saw an advert for a "course" that teaches you how to capitalize on the "AI gold rush" by using AI to write and sell ebooks. It's the new get-rich quick idea I guess

Post by herval » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:21 PM UTC

nerdjon wrote: post #9

spookybones wrote: post #5

Youtube is becoming flooded with influencers showing you how to do it and promising massive imaginary profits. Same for AI generated Etsy designs, copywriting gigs, and various other things.

Not just YouTube, but every social media platform seems to be spammed by it. I feel like I am seeing these stupid ads almost every hour now. A ton of people jumping on the bandwagon promising insane profits from AI. But if you thought for more than 1 second, if they themselves could make this much profit why would they be trying to convince other people to do it. The reality is they are likely the ones making any mon…

Post by ActionHank » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:24 PM UTC

red-iron-pine wrote: post #64

ActionHank wrote: post #14

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Just like crypto, but this time it destroys the fabric of society. Neat!

doesn't require the exponentially growing energy demands of BTC tho. like, it requires a lot, but not exponentially

Post by ska » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:40 PM UTC

staticman2 wrote: post #49

dorkwood wrote: post #19

How do we know these books are AI generated? Because the startup "Reality Defender" said so? This feels like they're deliberately singling out trash books and calling them AI-generated to fit their bias. It doesn't seem fair, since the AI content I've generated myself has been better than any book I've ever read. In fact, it's inspired me to generate my first book, which I'll be publishing soon.

>>>"...since the AI content I've generated myself has been better than any book I've ever read." With all due respect, you're probably kidding yourself about the quality of your AI generated book.