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AI-generated books: the rising tide of junk

AI-generated titles could flood the internet with mediocre and inaccurate content

The first book about the Maui wildfires hit Amazon just two days after the disaster struck, said Kevin Hurler on Gizmodo. The 86-page self-published volume, Fire and Fury, briefly jumped to No. 1 in Amazon’s “environmental science” category. Problem is, “evidence that the book was simply churned out by a machine is overwhelming”. 

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