[ATTN: Jaclyn] Question RE: AI Slop

[Drace]

I haven't seen this happen with many books, but this example is so egregious that I figured it was worth making a thread.

Earlier this summer, the book The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp came out. It's a nonfiction book about the long history of crimes, some of them violent, at a notorious US military base.

Right around the time the book came out, Amazon got flooded by garbage AI editions of grifters running Harp's book through Chatgpt or whatever in order to make crappy rip-off "summary" versions of the book. All of them are on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=th...

Is there any kind of policy on how to deal with garbage like this being churned out and flooding the site? I avoid AI "literature" at all costs, but even I recognize the difference between someone using generative AI to "write" an "original" story and whatever the hell this is.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Drace wrote: "I haven't seen this happen with many books, but this example is so egregious that I figured it was worth making a thread.

Earlier this summer, the book The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp came out...."

Hi Drace
AFAIK there is no policy regarding AI. You could try putting Attn Jaclyn in the heading of your thread.

[Drace]

Done.

For the record, as much distaste as I have for AI-generated art of any kind, I do think one could make a case for AI-generated fiction or whatever to have entries on the site (although I certainly won't be the one making it). It is probably pretty bad and I doubt anyone actually goes out of their way to read it, but fine, whatever. This instance is a case where people are creating AI-generated books with the specific purpose of ripping off an author with a new book out and trying to trick people into buying their garbage, so I wonder if there would be a different way to approach it.