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The answer is AI-based reviewers and moderators.

How will they know something was written by a human? And how fast can I throw content at that AI-checker and get an AI vs human score?

The goal should be to quality check not the AI vs human distinction.

It shouldn't matter if something was written by AI or human if it is high quality , fact-checked. But I think AI (or the way we use it) still needs some improvement for that.

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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

I know a relatively successful author and screenwriter. Said person is abondoning their current projects, because apparently their friend is very successful selling books on Amazon, produced with the help of AI. The friend will, apparently, teach them how they, too, can tap into this market. This conversation over Christmas dinner set off so many red flags, that I could only bite my tongue and nod.

This pains me so much, I can't even imagine how that had to have felt :-(

I sure hope this blows over quickly.

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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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.

ESOL people: avoid searching YouTube for "How to pronounce" videos because they are usually shit. Often poorly generated computer voices. Instead look for examples of real usage of the word in use e.g. https://youglish.com/ English is my mother tongue and I often need to look up how to say and use phrases from other English speaking regions e.g. "nowt" recently. And take care to pick your accent - particularly Americ…

I can't thank you enough for sharing that site, bloody tired of all the dodgy TTS YouTube pronunciation vids out there.

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It feels like Amazon has been a willing participant when it comes to seedy vendors flooding their marketplace with crap for a while now. They made a token effort to curtail some AI spam by limiting how many self-published books you can upload per day to 3, but that's still laughably high.

100% Real question is whether they'll start making their own 'AmazonBasics' branded AI-generated dogshit, just like they do to undercut/displace successful 3rd party products.

This is so going to happen. 100% margin for the kindle content

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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It feels like Amazon has been a willing participant when it comes to seedy vendors flooding their marketplace with crap for a while now. They made a token effort to curtail some AI spam by limiting how many self-published books you can upload per day to 3, but that's still laughably high.

> It feels like Amazon has been a willing participant

color me surprised.

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How will they know something was written by a human? And how fast can I throw content at that AI-checker and get an AI vs human score?

The goal should be to quality check not the AI vs human distinction. It shouldn't matter if something was written by AI or human if it is high quality , fact-checked. But I think AI (or the way we use it) still needs some improvement for that.

> still needs some improvement for that.

"still" ? This isn't even in the purview of current technology, afaik.

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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It's "funny"... In a way I feel like AI is always stated as the problem here but isn't it people that are the problem? I mean, I get that you can't control what the entire population does but, AI is a powerful tool that enables a lot of incredible things we may have never imagined being possible before. And it's not even out of its infancy yet. But people are ruining it. Similarly, a decentralized currency or decentr…

I blame AI because this was all 100% foreseeable. I also blame the people using AI to make trash, but hustlers gonna hustle and shitposters gonna shitpost. Until it's actually illegal to shit on the cultural commons of civilization, people are going to keep doing it.

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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.

I'm interested. Is this a work of fact or fiction? How much editing are you adding/subtracting to the content? How granular are your prompts (e.g., prompting for roughly each new paragraph, ~page, chapter, or larger)? How much are you finding you need to repeat/retry to get good output for your project?

I'm making non-fiction books that summarise historical events. No manual editing is necessary, as it automatically goes back through and cleans up any errors.

I can't share my exact prompt style since I believe I've found a reliable way to generate these books en masse with minimal factual errors.

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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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

Sin, eck, dock, ee. There is also a 'c' between the first e and the d.
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