I have to imagine that with the amount of data Amazon collects, they could do a lot more to counter the epidemic of fakes.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/20/amazon-restric...
Maybe simple self-help books can be written a little faster, because they are shorter. A maximum set in words -- instead of books -- might work better; say 100-150k words per year?
But would that be enough? Wouldn't grifters create a multitude of accounts to publish their books?
Maybe the solution would be some kind of automated system to evaluate the quality of a book? It needn't be fine-grained, it would simply output "trash/non trash" and could try to test whether the book contains any new information not available elsewhere, or whether there are entire paragraphs taken verbatim from wikihow.
But AI-generated books may be hard to spot. Maybe there's no solution.
Of course there will be outliers in any category, but even then... 100 million words divided by 60 years of activity (?) is 1.6 million words a year, every single year of that period. I don't think that's possible for just one man.
But ghostwriting is as old as writing.
they are not incentivized to do so, since they profit from the fakes; only if/when this results in customers disengaging from Amazon altogether and total sales decreasing, will it be seen as a problem
They buy a lot of ads so I guess Amazon likes them.
The text screams ChatGPT.
Amazon has given up on AI.
... with no evidence of charlatanism, note.