Apple Books Is Getting Flooded With AI-Generated Plagiarism
Apple Books is facing the same crisis that has plagued Amazon's Kindle Store for the past couple of years: fake books. Typically composed of low-quality, AI-generated summaries, these "books" copy the titles and visual assets of real books to confuse buyers and cash in on search results for popular releases.
Recently, technology journalist and author Joanna Stern noticed that more than 10 titles on Apple Books closely mirrored her book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, by using the same title and cover design. Many even featured her name on the cover—or a sloppy version of it, at least.
Some of these books used AI‑generated covers that looked very similar to the real one. In the video above, Stern says that when she purchased a few of these titles, the contents read like AI‑generated chapter‑by‑chapter summaries of her own book, packaged and...
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