It's called trying to make money. It happens throughout all of the various entertainment industries from movies to books. Some of the copycats find a slightly different way to tell the same story, but I wouldn't call it plagiarism.
Things that we watch and read and listen to are built on themes, and there are only so many themes to go around so we end up watching, reading, listening to the same themes over and over again, just with a slightly different spin on it.
As for AI, and DRM and all that crap, it's called big business, and their whole goal is for us to buy everything and to own NOTHING! They want to eliminate everyone that they have to pay so that they get ALL profits and make themselves rich.
There is very little that we can do to change that and *itching on web boards will not do anything.
When I find that I disagree about something I do the most important thing that I can. I vote with my money and take my business elsewhere. That is the only language that businesses understand, that is the most effective way to get change to happen.
I stopped buying Amazon books a few years back due to their DRM, and now only shop at Kobo. If Kobo decides to pull the same stunt as Amazon with no longer allowing us to download our purchases to our own pc's I will stop using them as well and search out other options from other ebook sellers.
I am a big rereader and with over 2700 books and a whole lot of fan fiction to read, I could easily drop buying books for the rest of my life and still be happy!
We cannot change the world, and life is too short to be looking for doom and gloom and the end of the world which we also are not able to change.
So, I focus on taking care of and pleasing ME and letting the rest sort itself out.
Life is a lot more peaceful this way.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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