Authors fighting deluge of fake writers and AI-generated books

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Mat Auryn has been fighting for two years to stop the sale of books by mysterious authors he says blatantly plagiarized his work.

He’s one of many writers in the realm of spirituality and occult literature who have noticed a recent proliferation of self-published books on Amazon by authors who don’t appear to actually exist. Some of them pump out hundreds of titles in a single year, with text that often appears to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, drowning out works by legi...