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Originally Posted by Quoth
The Tsunami of rubbish ebooks started a few years before the AI books. The AI detection tools are useless. You can decide a book is poor, or plagiaristic, but that doesn't make it AI. If you are very familiar with the writing from as student you'll spot when they are either using AI or outright copying (maybe search & replace of names, places, car models and more work for she<->he). You might not know which it is if it's poor.
If you are very familiar with an author you might spot someone pinching their name. if it's very good and not plagiarism it might not be AI.
It takes expertise, not just some SW tools to detect AI or human plagiarism. Even then you can be mistaken; big publishers have been fooled and had to pulp. Plagiarism is as old as writing.
Perhaps even before the advent of AI written text the idea of Self Publishing ebooks at zero cost and no "gate keeper" had become broken as people churned out and published junk.
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From my first perusal of Smashwords in the mid-to-late aughts....the torrent (ha!) of garbage was obvious and again, back then, nobody was yammering and repeating and parroting "AI AI AI!" as if the WitchFinder General was running a contest for the most obsequious.
It's...it is what it is. There was a time when we had gatekeepers; if naught else, lack of money "helped" in filtering out some of the dreck. (When I first started in the print side of this biz, in this century, I mean, a would-be self-publisher had to be prepared to pay thousands--thousands--just for a print layout for their novel and cover, ignoring printing costs, etc.)
That alone kept out a lotta the woulda-shoulda's.
Now? Now there's naught blocking the door and those selfsame gatekeepers that used to protect us from the onslaught--now, we are they.
Hitch