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AI-Generated Books Fuel a Wave of Literary Scams

Original: The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

Writers and publishers are grappling with a surge of scam books, increasingly produced with AI tools, that imitate real authors, plagiarise existing works, or flood online marketplaces with low-quality titles to harvest royalties. Reports describe how quickly fraudulent titles appear after a book gains attention, and how hard it is for platforms and readers to tell the difference.

Why now: Growing concern that AI is making book fraud cheap and easy to scale, harming authors and readers.

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• The Lucrative World of Literary Scams · samclemens · 75

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