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Authors are spamming out Kindle Books using ChatGPT - Good e-Reader

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AI is starting to take over the Kindle Bookstore, by authors taking advantage of Kindle Direct Publishing. In the first weeks of February, over 200 e-books that listed ChatGPT as an author or co-author. These books include "How to Write and Create Content Using ChatGPT," "The Power of Homework" and poetry collection "Echoes of the Universe" and sci-fi epic about an interstellar brothel, "Galactic Pimp: Vol. There could be even thousands of new books that have been submitted in February alone, due to authors not having to disclose if they used ChatGPT or not. The vast majority of these are low quality books that are submitted to the Kindle store, just to make a quick buck.


Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach

WIRED

In 1994, soon after Jeff Bezos incorporated what would become Amazon, the entrepreneur briefly contemplated changing the company's name. The nascent firm had been dubbed "Cadabra," but Bezos wanted a less playful, more accurate alternative: "Relentless." Twenty-four years later, perhaps no adjective better describes Bezos' empire than the name he once wanted to give it. The company is known as the "everything store," but in its dogged pursuit of growth, Amazon has come to dominate more than just ecommerce. Amazon is a fashion designer, advertising business, television and movie producer, book publisher, and the owner of a sprawling platform for crowdsourced micro-labor tasks.