I found this a fascinating read. How Amazon has become filled with garbage ebooks. https://www.vox.com/culture/24128560/amazon-trash-ebooks-mikkelsen-twins-ai-publishing-academy-scam
People will always abuse weak systems. I hope this will lead to quality stamps and human made stamps. To get a certificate there would need to be a global authority that reads new books and gives out stamps if they are made by humans. Might be costly, though...
Great article. The kicker, as they mention toward the end, isn't the dingdongs who perpetuate the scam but the technology and the marketplace working in cahoots to facilitate the scam. And it isn't illegal. Just unethical. Big big big difference.
It'll take time to develop it properly to make sure that it's written by a human. As time progresses, the better AI content will be making the job more difficult.
It'll be more like an ongoing arms race, or like the constant tug-of-war between digital surveillance and things like VPNs that protect people from them. There'll be a massive advancement on one side, and then after struggling for a while the other side will figure out how to disable it or get around it.
Of course if AI fiction gets good enough, nobody will care, except for human authors who think wistfully back to a time when they were employable. But it's highly doubtful computers will ever be able to convincingly simulate feelings and human experience. There's no way they can 'understand' it (the word doesn't even have releveance).
Difficult to police perhaps. I can't understand why those duped into buying rubbish don't report it to Amazon and demand a refund. They would sort it out pronto if they were hit where it hurts.
A useful tool for spotting AI written text is... AI. It's like the best way to fight a Terminator is with another Terminator. Or maybe John Connor.
