ICYMI: AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Authors’ Reputations

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 50 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	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:44.5	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:48.4	In case you missed it.
0:50.3	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:53.4	And wow.
0:57.6	I do feel like we are officially in fall now.
0:59.6	You know, I'm watching Gilmore Girls.
1:01.5	The VMAs just happened.
1:04.0	Football is allegedly back.
1:15.1	And yet, it does kind of feel like something is like missing. I know exactly what you mean.
1:17.6	I feel like I really tell time by when new TV shows come out.
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