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So, the future is now!

Now anyone lazy enough (to even not remove the phrase "As an AI language model I can't..." from the generated text) can "write books". And these "books" will be fundamentally plagiarism and a bunch of trivia by design.

Isn't that wonderful?

It certainly is wonderful!



Wonderful indeed! I don't mind other people making money, but this thing is getting out of hands:

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-courses-instruction-...

Not only have YouTubers found the same "business model", but now there are also people "educating" other people to "write" e-books and use image generators for book covers. Of course, you get also the AI generated promotion material with these courses.


Oh no, that's not all.

There are also fake positive reviews.

Now everything is really great!


The funny part is that he didn't even care to generate a different number of reviews for each book, or to add a few 4's in just to make it more realistic. He used the exact same number of reviews for many books, and all are full 5's!


That would be the result if it was automated, such as either a script or the AI itself instructed to write books on various subjects, selling them on Amazon, and then reviewing them. I don't see what can be done to stop this trend since it's 100% certain it will become ubiquitous.




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