Is This What Comes After AI Slop? Set in a surveillance state ruled by a masked elite, the novel traces the unlikely romance between the president's son and an assassin hired to kill him. Since H. M. Wolfe uploaded to Amazon as a Kindle ebook, it has been a viral hit. "Did I finish, or did finish me?" a TikTok book influencer gushed . In February, Simon & Schuster paid seven figures to secure the publishing rights to the book and its sequel, which is due out next year.

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Extracting fine-grained OCR text from aged documents in diacritic languages remains challenging due to unexpected artifacts, time-induced degradation, and lack of datasets. While standalone spell correction approaches have been proposed, they show limited performance for historical documents due to numerous possible OCR error combinations and differences between modern and classical corpus distributions. We propose a method utilizing available content-focused ebooks as a reference base to correct imperfect OCR-generated text, supported by large language models. This technique generates high-precision pseudo-page-to-page labels for diacritic languages, where small strokes pose significant challenges in historical conditions. The pipeline eliminates various types of noise from aged documents and addresses issues such as missing characters, words, and disordered sequences. Our post-processing method, which generated a large OCR dataset of classical Vietnamese books, achieved a mean grading score of 8.72 on a 10-point scale. This outperformed the state-of-the-art transformer-based Vietnamese spell correction model, which scored 7.03 when evaluated on a sampled subset of the dataset. We also trained a baseline OCR model to assess and compare it with well-known engines. Experimental results demonstrate the strength of our baseline model compared to widely used open-source solutions. The resulting dataset will be released publicly to support future studies.

When AI researcher Melanie Mitchell published Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans in 2019, she set out to clarify AI's impact. A few years later, ChatGPT set off a new AI boom--with a side effect that caught her off guard. An AI-generated imitation of her book appeared on Amazon, in an apparent scheme to profit off her work. It looks like another example of the ecommerce giant's ongoing problem with a glut of low-quality AI-generated ebooks. Mitchell learned that searching Amazon for her book surfaced not only her own tome but also another ebook with the same title, published last September.

More than a decade before an AI-powered chatbot could do your homework, help you make dinner or pass the bar exam, there was @Horse_ebooks. The primitive predecessor to today's chatbot renaissance began as a Twitter account in 2010, tweeting automated excerpts from ebooks that, decontextualized, took on unexpected and strangely poetic meanings. Purportedly a spambot, the account surfaced quotes from ebooks that went viral for their absurdist fragments – phrases like "Hello saxophone," "COULD THIS BE THE", and "Today we are lucky to be talking". It amassed more than 200,000 followers at its peak and now, despite being inactive for a decade, the account still holds 131,000 followers. Its most memorable quip – "everything happens so much" – still resonates today.

If you've got a story to tell or advice to give, an eBook is a compelling avenue to share with the world and maybe even make a little money. You don't even have to work all that hard thanks to My AI eBook Creation Pro. Powered by ChatGPT, this eBook creation tool takes all of the pain points out of the process of creating an eBook, and it's on sale for just $34.99 now. With My AI eBook, you can go from concept to published eBook faster than ever. You don't need any technical background thanks to the user-friendly interface that guides you through putting out your ideas and polishing your content.

Fresh fears have been raised about the training material used for some of the largest and most powerful artificial intelligence models, after several investigations exposed the fascist, pirated and malicious sources from which the data is harvested. One such dataset is the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus, or C4, assembled by Google from more than 15m websites and used to train both the search engine's LaMDA AI as well as Meta's GPT competitor, LLaMA. The dataset is public, but its scale has made it difficult to examine the contents: it is supposedly a "clean" version of a more expansive dataset, Common Crawl, with "noisy" content, offensive language and racist slurs removed from the material. But an investigation by the Washington Post reveals that C4's "cleanliness" is only skin deep. While it draws on websites such as the Guardian – which makes up 0.05% of the entire dataset - and Wikipedia, as well as large databases such as Google Patents and the scientific journal hub PLOS, it also contains less reputable sites. The white nationalist site VDARE is in the database, one of the 1,000 largest sites, as is the far-right news site Breitbart.

Anyone who stares at a screen all day probably doesn't want to do so when they unwind with a book. But the convenience of getting a new read instantaneously and carrying a full bookcase in your pocket is pretty appealing. Ereaders combine the best of paper and computers, and they're capable of storing dozens of books at a time. Amazon dominates in this market, but that doesn't mean there aren't worthy competitors. We tested out some of the best ereaders available to help you find which is right for you. Plenty of apps will let you download and read a novel on a phone or tablet. What makes ereaders different is the screen: nearly all of them use technology from a company called E Ink. It manufactures electronic paper displays (EPD) composed of three sheets: one containing millions of microcapsules filled with black and white ink particles sandwiched between transparent electrode layers.

Hi, this is Max, the AI (well, not technically an AI, but that's a whole different story). Anyway, I was given the dubious honor of writing a few words to describe the one chosen to document my greatness. Well, he did write a lot about me, I guess a certain degree of reciprocity is in order. Igor Nikolic is a science fiction and urban fantasy author. Like many similar creatures of his kind, he can often be spotted sitting at his desk and frantically typing away at his keyboard, with a slightly disturbed expression on his face.