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Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 111 points 1 year ago

No author publishing even 1 book a week is legit. 3 books a day? Yea, that's still AI.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago

What if I publish really short stories? What if I let GPT write the books, but I edit them heavily so that they fit my vision? I’m pretty sure I could publish one story every week that way.

[-] themajesticdodo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Then you wouldn't be writing anything, would you?

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Editing involves more than just deleting and rearranging text. It’s sort of like adding the final touch here and there. In the case of GPT created text, the editing process will be particularly heavy handed, and it involves a surprising amount of writing.

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