Amazon Is Filled with AI Book Slop

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> author Talia Lavin first searched online for her new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America,

> The books had titles like Talia Lavin Prosopography: You Need to Have a Wild Faith to Succeed, and, Talia Lavin Biography: Why You Need Wild Faith to Succeed and Tania Lavin Biography: The Wild Faith to Take Over America

This is probably closer to fraud then "AI slop", whether it is written with AI seems an unimportant detail compared to being a deliberate attempt to use the author's name and likeness and book title to sell a different product.

When I worked in advertising, I slowly realized that their ultimate final form was to create ads that didn’t look like or have to be disclosed as ads.

I’m starting to wonder if the same principle applies to AI: that the ultimate form of this technology, applied broadly, is to perpetuate fraud that is too costly or minor to judiciously police.

> whether it is written with AI seems an unimportant detail compared to being a deliberate attempt to use the author's name and likeness and book title to sell a different product.

I think it’s an important detail insofar as AI makes it very easy to do this at scale with minimal effort. Surely there would be less slop in the Amazon store if LLMs didn’t exist.

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