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Originally Posted by cfrizz
And as for the comment of Amazon has tons of drivel, by who's definition? One person's drivel is another person's favorite kind of book to read! Enough with the blanket statements.
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In my opinion. Too many of the ebooks published by Amazon and others are attempts to jump on whatever bandwagon is currently popular with complaints that many of those copycat books skirt the edge of plagiarism. As has been noted with several complaints about books where the names have been changed but all else is pretty much a word for word of another book as the horrible examples.
A lot of the AI created books on Amazon and elsewhere are dreck with the usual AI hallucinations—this from one person I know who has actually gone to the trouble of downloading hundreds of samples from Amazon and Kobo and then running the samples through several AI detection utilities. The ones that were flagged as AI were purchased—that most of them were 99¢ helped so the total expense wasn't that high though a few eyebrows were raised when looking at his expense reports. The downloaded books were again analyzed and they are now having fun crunching the data and trying to write their thesis. Hopefully, once they have finished and defended their thesis, more information will be available.
As Sturgeon's revelation put it, 90% of everything is crap. Sadly, AI generated content drives that number a lot higher.
I will admit to having read several books that I suspected were AI generated but still better than many human authors' 10 finger exercises.