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I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman

janefriedman.com I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman

Amazon and Goodreads must take steps to combat the flood of AI-generated content that will mislead readers and damage author reputations.

I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman

tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman's name.  The same books were added to her Goodreads profile.  Amazon initially refused to remove the books.  If it's happening to her, it's definitely happening to other authors.

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