'It makes me look like I’m trying to take advantage of people with really crappy books.'
These fraudulent books, which had titles like "How to Write and Publish an eBook Quickly and Make Money" and "Igniting Ideas: Your Guide to Writing a Bestseller eBook on Amazon," were unsurprisingly troubling to the author, whose whole career is built upon providing advice.The Guardian.
"I’ve been blogging since 2009 — there’s a lot of my content publicly available for training AI models," Friedman wrote. "As soon as I read the first pages of these fake books, it was like reading ChatGPT responses I had generated myself.
Curiously enough, Amazon and Goodreads both took the fraudulent titles down after the story began gaining traction online. An Amazon spokesperson toldin identical statements that the company has "clear content guidelines governing which books can be listed for sale" and that it "promptly investigate[s] any book when a concern is raised."
"I’m sure [the titles were removed] in no small part due to my visibility and reputation in the writing and publishing community," Friedman wrote on her blog. "What will authors with smaller profiles do when this happens to them?""I am revisiting my key book, 'The Business of Being a Writer,' and I am going to have a section on AI," she told
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