Google Books Appears to Be Indexing Works Written by AI
April 4, 2024
Google Books is indexing low-quality, AI-generated books, degrading its database and potentially distorting Google Ngram Viewer's analysis of language trends. This integration of inaccurate or misleading information undermines trust, disseminates poor-quality content, and wastes resources as researchers must spend time clearing up the misinformation.
- Alleged deployer
- google, google-books
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- google-books, google-ngram-viewer, researchers, general-public
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/684
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