Amazon Is Full of AI-Written Novels That Don’t Make Sense
Authors and customers were shocked Monday morning to find that out of 100 books on Amazon’s “Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance eBooks” Best Sellers list, only 19 were “legitimate” books written by actual human authors. AI produced the other 81 books. How could people tell? The differences were evident: The text made no sense, the manuscripts were messily formatted, and the covers had been slapped together, usually with a single background graphic and an unstylized title. The listings were also suspicious, with zero information (like synopses, review quotes, highlights, or graphics) to help readers decide whether to dig in or pass. At most, they featured two or three random sentences in the description section of the listing.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/am...make-sense
Authors and customers were shocked Monday morning to find that out of 100 books on Amazon’s “Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance eBooks” Best Sellers list, only 19 were “legitimate” books written by actual human authors. AI produced the other 81 books. How could people tell? The differences were evident: The text made no sense, the manuscripts were messily formatted, and the covers had been slapped together, usually with a single background graphic and an unstylized title. The listings were also suspicious, with zero information (like synopses, review quotes, highlights, or graphics) to help readers decide whether to dig in or pass. At most, they featured two or three random sentences in the description section of the listing.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/am...make-sense
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
