Alleged ChatGPT-Generated Book with a Duplicate Title, Fake Author, and Similar Content Surfaces on Amazon Ahead of Real Author's Book Release

February 3, 2023

Author Chris Cowell spent over a year penning his book 'Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines'. Three weeks before its release, an identical title book by untraceable author 'Marie Karpos' surfaced. Suspicions point to AI generation, as the content bears striking resemblance to ChatGPT-generated text. The original Washington Post story does not confirm this theory but suggests potential use of Amazon preorder page details.

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Alleged deployer: inkstall, marie-karpos
Alleged developer: openai, chatgpt
Alleged harmed parties: chris-cowell

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