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The Dial reports on the growing business of literary scams, with a focus on AI-generated books being passed off as human-authored work. Fraudulent authors and fake backlists are flooding online bookstores, profiting from publishing platforms' automated systems while readers and legitimate writers pay the price. The article examines how the economics of self-publishing make such schemes lucrative and what platforms and publishers are doing, or failing to do, to stop them.
- 2New Book Released for Software and AI Architects●NEW! Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Dear Software & AI Architect: A Personal Guide to Leadership, Architecture, and AI Engineerin
A new book titled 'Dear Software & AI Architect: A Personal Guide to Leadership, Architecture, and AI Engineering' by Shweta Vohra has launched on Leanpub, the self-publishing platform. The book covers leadership, software architecture and AI engineering, and is being promoted with a trailer. Early attention is modest, with the announcement circulating mainly among software architecture and platform engineering communities.
- 3The Lucrative World of AI-Powered Literary Scams●The Lucrative World of Literary Scams https://www. thedial.world/articles/news/ai -book-scams # ai
A report by The Dial examines how scammers use artificial intelligence to mass-produce fake books and impersonate authors, profiting from fraudulent publishing schemes. The article details how AI-generated titles flood online bookstores, exploiting self-publishing platforms and deceiving readers, while legitimate writers and publishers struggle to combat the flood of counterfeit content.
- 4Self-publishing author presses tredition on local AI use●Ich habe versucht bei # SelfPublishing Buchdistributor # tredition eine Antwort zu bekommen, warum man nicht lokal # LLM
A self-publishing author says she has repeatedly asked the German book distributor tredition to explain why it does not use locally run language models for its processes, which she says would prevent manuscript data from flowing to US-based AI services she calls plagiarism machines. She reports that the company has so far evaded her questions, and she is publicly wondering why, sparking debate about publisher transparency on AI data handling.