The author has no real recourse here, no control. Meanwhile tech companies have been laying off integrity staff and replaced them with ineffective AI to maintain their profit margins
It’s not that AI is causing this - it happened before, just a human scale - but we really need to force these companies to manage the consequences of the at scale business / monopolies they have been allowed to operate or we end up in an entirely dystopian situation where ‘nothing can be done’.
This is Backpage all over again. Maybe publish a sex trafficking or terrorism how-to manual written in Sam Altman's name (or just start selling people on Amazon) and Congress will get involved.
I was thinking thinking about buying a breville air fryer pro. Wow, it seemed it was such a good oven, there were cookbooks specifically for this model!
...and then I realized that not only were the books copy/pasted or ai-generated, but so were all the reviews. They were even submitted, all of them, 5-star, the same day.
I complained and amazon said the reviews were legitimate. They also said they couldn't take any action because I hadn't bought the book. So I bought it, complained, and returned it and then they looked at it.
If you are interested, here's a similar book for a different brand air fryer that hasn't been complained about.
There are a LOT of 5-star reviews May 31st:
Now: fact checkers no longer needed anywhere because internet.
Future: wat is fact?