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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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So, 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!

Oh no, that's not all.

There are also fake positive reviews.

Now everything is really great!

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

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post #12

All the books have approximately the same number of reviews. Is Amazon completely uninterested in dealing with fake reviews?

I wonder if our clicks alone are actually somehow driving his numbers up at Amazon? I surely would hope so. It would be amazing to actually see the reviews of real people who inadvertently bought these books because they showed up as recommended in some independent search.

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

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This 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...?

It would create * an inflation in the offer; * a staggering amount of noise; * a bubble that would conclude with the creation of services like "Instant book generator".

(I am not even mentioning the next step, to avoid seeding bad ideas.)

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

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This 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...

Yeah, that was the review that triggered me to search the author up. :)

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

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post #13

Curiously 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".

Yes, all very sophisticated. Surely even the best trained AIs at this small company called Amazon couldn't possibly detect such exploits!

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

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post #26

Is it legal to publish books with content copied from chatgpt output? Is it possible to prove (in a legal sense) that this content comes from chatgpt?

Very good question; the original review that prompted (pun intended) me to search the author up certainly proves that at least one of his books are from ChatGPT: https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B0BWVH451G/ref=acr_dp...

And obviously he did not really even attempt to hide anything. Whether it's legal or not: I don't think we have a clear, 100% obvious understanding of the consequences right now, but I'm pretty sure OpenAI couldn't care less. Suing people who use ChatGPT to publish meaningless books would surely not do them any good. Who else might care enough?

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

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post #13

Curiously 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".

Yes, all very sophisticated. Surely even the best trained AIs at this small company called Amazon couldn't possibly detect such exploits!

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

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So, 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!

Oh no, that's not all. There are also fake positive reviews. Now everything is really great!

The funny part is that he didn't even care to generate a different number of reviews for each book, or to add a few 4's in just to make it more realistic. He used the exact same number of reviews for many books, and all are full 5's!
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