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AI is writing and selling fake / scam books and articles

https://authorsguild.org/news/ai-driving-new-surge-of-sham-books-on-amazon/

You can find more about this searching online if you wanted, there are quite a few articles and reports about how artificial intelligence is being used to write bogus books which are then sold online in places like Amazon, and it's been going on for a while now.  :o

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https://authorsguild.org/news/ai-driving-new-surge-of-sham-books-on-amazon/

You can find more about this searching online if you wanted, there are quite a few articles and reports about how artificial intelligence is being used to write bogus books which are then sold online in places like Amazon, and it's been going on for a while now.  :o

Thanks for the warning, though personally I avoid Amazon unless absolutely necessary, and try to buy books from other sources. I do appreciate that it is not only Amazon that are going to be infected with scammers though!

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There's a pinned post on the Nim forum about this currently, several AI generated Nim coding how to books have been published online with apparently convincing titles and descriptions that are a mix of rewritten material and AI "hallucinations" as they are termed, where the AI has simply invented parts to fill any gaps. As there are so few genuine books on Nim the fakes were easily found, this might not be the case for other subjects.

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Just torrent the books instead.
If it's bad. delete it, if it's good keep it.
Buy a e-ink ereader instead.
Siteload the books.

Most of the money is going straight to amazon instead of the author.
A pdf/epub version of the books exist online.

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Reply #4 –
You Can Call Me Al
Song by Paul Simon



A man walks down the street
He says, "Why am I soft in the middle, now?
Why am I soft in the middle?
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"

Bonedigger, Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away in my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says, "Why am I short of attention?
Got a short little span of attention
And, whoa, my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family?
What if I die here?
Who'll be my role model
Now that my role model is gone, gone?"

He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along, along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the third world
Maybe it's his first time around
Doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound, the sound

Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says, "Amen and Hallelujah!"

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al
Call me
Na na na na, na na na na
Na na na na, na na na-na na-na
Na na na na, na-na na-na na na
Na na na na, na na na na
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can call you Betty
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can call you Betty
If you'll be my bodyguard


Source: LyricFind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMbfT3Wppjo
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