AI Written Books Are Already Starting To Flood Amazon

According to the report, there were over 200 e-books in the e-retailer’s Kindle store as of this month that listed “ChatGPT” as an author — some of which are being sold for as little as $1 — but the real number is likely much higher, since people can use AI without disclosing that fact.

Many self-professed “authors” are using tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate children’s books, illustrated with art also generated using AI-powered apps.

Books created using AI text generators are starting to flood Amazon, Reuters reports, the natural progression of a massive surge in interest in the technology. 

AI generators like ChatGPT are making it incredibly easy to fast-track a book and have it published on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing store.

Reuters

ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon

Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. But after learning about the ChatGPT artificial intelligence program, Schickler figured an opportunity had landed in his lap.

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Good e-Reader

Authors are spamming out Kindle Books using ChatGPT

AI is starting to take over the Kindle Bookstore, by authors taking advantage of Kindle Direct Publishing. In the first weeks of February, over 200 e-books that listed ChatGPT as an author or co-author. These books include ‘How to Write and Create Content Using ChatGPT,’ ‘The Power of Homework’ and poetry collection ‘Echoes of the Universe’ and sci-fi epic about an interstellar brothel, ‘Galactic Pimp: Vol. 1.’ There could be even thousands of new books that have been submitted in February alone, due to authors not having to disclose if they used ChatGPT or not. The vast majority of these

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TechSpot

ChatGPT is overtly and covertly writing novels and short stories and the industry is freaking out

The latest bombshell to hit the ChatGPT spectrum is a report that as of mid-February, the AI has 200 or more books under its virtual belt published…

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