Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon::Amazon resisted a removal request, citing lack of “trademark registration numbers.”
Almost like Amazon should have some responsibility in properly vetting their sellers. This isn’t the only case of bad quality bootlegs on Amazon. They have no decent incentive to fix it if they are making more money from it. It doesn’t help when the blame is filtered through the smokescreen of ephemeral merchants.
I agree. I’m not sure whether Amazon should get fines the second a bad seller makes a bad action, but they should definitely have to prove (according to external criteria) that they are making good faith efforts to remove bad actors.
After reading that, I checked up on my mother, who is an author. No AI-generated books, but for some reason, Amazon is selling a copy of a 10-page xeroxed journal put out by the students of her graduate school in 1968. She has no idea what she wrote in it and it’s not really worth buying (if I really want to see it, the university has a copy in their library). But what a bizarre find on Amazon.
Shit’s fucked, yo
