Hundreds of Books by ChatGPT Flood Amazon

@akalinus (43196)
United States
February 24, 2023 2:23pm CST
People have been using ChatGPT to write books on Amazon and most likely, other sites also. This upsets me greatly. Real authors struggle to develop their own plots, characters, and ideas. The article I read claims that ChatGPT plagiarizes work from all over the internet. I can imagine that this kind of development will cause many problems with people accused of plagiarizing their own work or that of others. It will be a huge mess to deal with. If you want to read the article, this is the link. What do you think? Are you concerned about this?
ChatGPT listed as author on titles ranging from self-help to children’s fiction
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10 responses
• Cuddalore, India
24 Feb 23
I tried testing this using plagiarism detector tool. The content provided by Chat GPT is unique.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
24 Feb 23
What did you test? My discussion or the article online? It is going to be interesting in the ongoing days to see what happens.
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• Cuddalore, India
24 Feb 23
@akalinus I tried to script a story using Chat GPT. To check it authenticity I scanned it using a plagiarism checker tool. It shows 100% unique.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
24 Feb 23
@Lignitecityabishek96 I don't know how it can be. There is a lot I don't understand. So is it alright to use robot assistance to write stories and sell them when the buyer could use a bot to write them?
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@Shivram59 (35504)
• India
25 Feb 23
@akalinus Yes;I'm concerned.But I seldom read books online.I like to read offline books.Recently I bought a book "Secularism." The book is in Hindi.Now I'm going to buy another book on partition of India.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
25 Feb 23
Those sound like serious issues I am not really familiar with. I'm glad you were able to find books written in Hindi.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
26 Feb 23
@Shivram59 That is good of them. They know you like to read and they have what you want or they can get it for you.
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@Shivram59 (35504)
• India
26 Feb 23
@akalinus Thanks.I like reading.The book selleers here are my friends.They know my choices.Everytime a book of my choice comes;they inform me.
@crossbones27 (49463)
• Mojave, California
24 Feb 23
AI is going to take over the world. As long as AI pays me better than the corrupt greedy people I am all for it. lol I make bad jokes.
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• Mojave, California
24 Feb 23
@akalinus Good point and what is really scary is probably 90 percent of AI is being trained by corrupt greedy people. Science AI is another category, but the AI they using for corporations, do not expect AI to save your life, to make things fair, to even the playing field it will be taught to be just as nasty as our leaders.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
24 Feb 23
@crossbones27 The world is a mess and it is sad what has happened to it. There will always be greedy and unprincipled people, some of them in high places. It is scary now.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
24 Feb 23
I think Elon Musk believes that AI will overtake the world and be our master. It is a terrifying thought. How you use it depends on your level of morality.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
24 Feb 23
I'm not to worried about this as a writer I have soft wear that sweeps daily the online for my books to make sure it's not on any other site then amazon. I'm exclusive to publishing through them so that means right now I cannot have my books market on any other websites or stores without talking to amazon first otherwise my account gets pulled.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
24 Feb 23
@akalinus They have rights to sell it and for me to not have it anywhere else besides their website. You can when publishing through choice not to but as a baby author and I don't have a lot of money to put towards my righting it's a reasonable requested. I use a soft wear called Muso its used by a lot of big authors as well and it searches and finds your work if it's some places you wouldn't want it to be you can have it taken down and removed without breaking contracts even with an actual publishing company they can have written in for you to not have your stuff anywhere but through them and that is there rights as the publisher. Author doesn't have copy rights to their work unless they go through certification which is like $45 for each time you want to make it official that this work is 100% yours but it doesn't stop people from piracy. It just a certification saying this body of work belongs to you and is only legal to you.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
25 Feb 23
@ShyBear88 I will look into that. I want to protect my stuff best as I can. People have plagiarized my work online before, copied and pasted it with their name on it.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
24 Feb 23
Wow, those are tough terms. Do they have the rights to everything you write?
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@sallypup (61120)
• Centralia, Washington
24 Feb 23
I wonder what Asimov would have said about this mess?
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
24 Feb 23
That's a good question. It just makes me feel sick. I wonder if I should give up writing.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
24 Feb 23
@sallypup Thank you, but I am pretty discouraged about it right now. And it will probably get worse in the future.
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@sallypup (61120)
• Centralia, Washington
24 Feb 23
@akalinus No and no. Do NOT give up writing. Please. We need more writiers
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@porwest (90917)
• United States
25 Feb 23
I am getting mixed messages about what this thing actually is. Some say it doesn't just copy and paste, but is "original" in what it "writes" based on what it learns. Others say it directly plagiarizes. Either way, the bottom line for me is I don't like it. I don't like the idea of it. I don't like that it exists. I don't like that non-writers will use it and crowd space (as you suggested) for real writers doing the real work. And I don't like the idea that it MIGHT just be stealing my work at some point. I wish it would just go away.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
25 Feb 23
I hate that it is here and could just negate any real talent and efforts of writers. It is the worst thing ever for authors and writers.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
2 Mar 23
@porwest I hate it being there. Someone who can barely formulate a cohesive sentence can send volumes of so-called original writing to a writing site or publisher while real writers with morals struggle with ideas and rewriting.
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@porwest (90917)
• United States
2 Mar 23
@akalinus Yeah. I agree. Some inventions just muck things up, not make things better, and this would be one of them.
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@ptrikha_2 (46953)
• India
25 Feb 23
This had to happen one day! Easy access to such new technologies was blind to cause issues. Probably such a software is better kept costlier to prevent overuse and misuse.
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@ptrikha_2 (46953)
• India
26 Feb 23
@akalinus Any place where Credit Card details are asked can be problematic. I faced auto debit from AWS (Amazon Web Service) when I was not active usage of their Virtual machines. Then I decided to withdraw all my information from there.
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
25 Feb 23
I was thinking of the free trial to see what it is all about but don't like using a credit card for something that is supposed to be free. They just want to charge something on it as soon as possible.
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@allknowing (136446)
• India
25 Feb 23
Dooms day is close at hand (lol)
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@akalinus (43196)
• United States
25 Feb 23
I think the Doomsday Clock is set for one minute before midnight. I wish we could turn it back.
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@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Feb 23
Certainly I'm concerned about it. I can't imagine what the outcome would be.
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
25 Feb 23
This is a great disappointment to me and all other authors. We spend a lot of time formulating our stories and books; and it's upsetting that people are using computerized programs to do their writing for them.
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