Amazon Rife with Many Allegedly AI-Generated Books of Suspect Quality

June 28, 2023

Amazon's Kindle Unlimited young adult romance bestseller list experienced disruption due to allegedly AI-generated books with questionable quality, raising concerns about platform integrity and potential financial impact on legitimate authors. These books, reported as 'clearly there to click farm', were initially found on the bestseller list but remained available for purchase despite removal. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI governance and maps well to the HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM – Measure function.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.654, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 4.2 — similarity 0.640, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.635, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: unknown
Alleged developer: unknown
Alleged harmed parties: authors, amazon-customers, amazon

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