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This [1] The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China seems to be the most reviewed book (35) at 3.3 stars, being sold for $495 USD. [1] http://www.amazon.com/2009-2014-Outlook-Toilet-Seats-Greater...
Also, I didn't like the Scratch N Sniff parts.
Just what Amazon needs: 800,000 computer-generated books crapping up the listings along with the thousands of on-demand printed copies of Wikipedia articles. Wonderful.
Generate conference-ready CS papers in seconds!
I think only humans can create IP, though IANAL.
Copyright is supposed to protect an expression of an idea. I'm not sure how far you can bend the argument to say that computer reorganization of facts is expression.
For pixar and animations, the end result is an expression of artists' designs.
Can you have copyright without an expressive aspect? Is there any human expression in this output?
How does it determine the price? By the pound? Amazon should clearly mark these as computer generated. I'll bet most of the purchases are from people who didn't know what they were even getting.
As formulaic as some series are, I wonder how long it will be until a best seller is "written" by a program?
I guess this is the physical manifestation of the "million monkeys on a typewriter" thought experiment.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The index for this book is also useless. It seems to index every word in the text, whether it's significant or not; for example, "September". Also the index has entries for "Nova" and "Scotia", but not "Nova Scotia" (which is presumably where these two words came from). I don't think that real authors would face any significant competition from this guy.
It also would seem to cast a lie to the claim that they are generated "algorithmically."
Also deviations in the data are recognized and highlited, but not (yet?) examined and elaborated upon. No doubt this will be possible in the near future.
So, kudos for the general approach. Can't wait for the automated reading programs for digesting these books. And that is meant only half jokingly. The data is there, the general knowledge is there and there is enough reasoning power to draw conclusions. The next step would be to make automated descisions based on the available data, so politicians could join the authors in beeing unemployed...
Well I for one welcome our new text blasting overlords.
Ahhhh.... a marketer "programmed" it. All cleared up now.