Amazon has created a new rule limiting the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale in recent months.
The company announced the new limitations in a post on its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) forum on Monday. “While we have not seen a spike in our publishing numbers, in order to help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place on new title creations,” read the statement. KDP allows authors to self-publish their books and list them for sale on Amazon’s site.
Amazon told the Guardian that the limit is set at three titles, though this number may be adjusted “if needed”. The company confirmed that there was previously no limit to the number of books authors could list a day.
Amazon enables AI books to continue self-publishing
FTFY
If they actually wanted to stop them they could, easily, but why would they, they clearly make them easy money…
What’s this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.
AI detection tools don’t work, and humans aren’t much better, unless they’re subject experts. How do we stop AI books?
I 110% guarantee that this issue was brought to the attention of several people with the ability to rapidly implement a fix, but the subject was dropped when cost to develop was mentioned. Amazon is the glass and steel incarnation of human malice.
And the AIs probably run in AWS, so it generates them money while it generates them money.