AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Authors’ Reputations

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by Jane Friedman, author of The Business of Being a Writer and the publisher of Hot Sheet, a newsletter about the publishing industry. The three discuss Friedman’s recent battle with AI-generated books that were being published and sold under her name on Amazon. Friedman published a blog about the saga titled “I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon are Becoming Dumpster Fires)” detailing the dangers that the increasingly prolific practice presents to authors and the publishing industry at large. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:14.7	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:18.6	In case you missed it.
0:20.4	Slate's podcast about internet culture
0:22.6	And wow
0:24.2	I do feel like we are officially
0:26.5	in fall now
0:27.8	You know I'm watching Gilmore girls
0:29.8	The VMAs just happened
0:31.7	Football is allegedly back
0:34.2	And yet
0:35.5	It does kind of feel like something is, like, missing.
0:45.2	I know exactly what you mean.
0:47.8	I feel like I really tell time by when new TV shows come out.
0:52.8	And with the simultaneous strikes that this show supports
0:57.2	full-heartedly, it doesn't really feel like fall is here yet. Like there's no new season of Riverdale
1:04.6	because it's finally over. There's no new extremely horny Shonda Rhymes drama. Yeah, but I do have to say, Rachel, can I please tell you about the craziest ad I saw recently?
1:17.0	Please.
1:17.8	Okay.
1:18.2	So there is apparently a new TV show coming out.
1:21.3	It stars Mark Paul Gossler as a guy who is being kidnapped and held in a detective's basement.
1:29.3	And the detective is like, hey, King, I will let you go if you help me do my job and rescue other kidnapping victims.
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