Why the Great AI Backlash Came for a Tiny Startup You've Probably Never Heard Of
A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift.
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A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift.
Large language models are disrupting the publishing industry, from spam submissions to garbage books.
Amazon stopped selling five books this week that appeared to have been written using AI and carried the name of someone who did not write the books.
Book scams are proliferating in the advent of AI-generated content
Amazon has reportedly removed several "garbage books" falsely attributed to real authors, believed to be churned out using generative AI, after initially refusing to do so. It took a public backlash from authors and organizations for the tech giant to remove the bogus books from its website.