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How AI-Generated Books Could Hurt Self-Publishing Authors from jane friedman https://janefriedman.com/author/admin/ Just two days after the Maui wildfires began, on Aug. 10, a new book was self-published, Fire and Fury: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change by “Dr. Miles Stones” (no such person seems to exist). I learned about the book from this Forbes article, but by then, am*zon had removed the book from sale. am*zon had no comment for Forbes on the situation. Curious about how far the book might have spread, I did a Google search for the book’s ISBN number (9798856899343). To my surprise, I saw the book was also for sale at Bookshop and Barnes & Noble. I tweeted about the situation, noting that IngramSpark, a division of Ingram, must be distributing these books to the broader retail market. My assumption was that retailers, in particular Bookshop, would not accept self-published books coming out of am*zon’s KDP. (am*zon KDP authors can choose to enable am*zon’s Expanded Distribution at no cost, to reach retail markets outside of am*zon.) It turns out my assumption was wrong. Bookshop does accept self-published books distributed by am*zon, and here things get a little convoluted. am*zon Expanded Distribution uses Ingram to distribute; Ingram is the biggest book distributor and there isn’t really any other service to use for distribution as far as the US/UK. However, Bookshop’s policy is not to sell AI-generated books unless they are clearly labeled as such, so Fire and Fury was removed from sale after they were alerted to its presence. Bookshop’s founder Andy Hunter tweeted: “We will pull them from @Bookshop_Org when we find them, but it’s always going to be a challenge to support self-published authors while trying to NOT support AI fakes.” And now we come to why self-publishing authors have reason to be seriously concerned about the rising tide of AI-generated books. am*zon KDP is unlikely to ever prohibit AI-generated content. Even if it did create such a policy, there are no surefire detection methods for AI-generated material today. am*zon KDP authors can easily enable expanded distribution to the broader retail market at no cost to them. It’s basically a checkbox. am*zon uses Ingram to distribute, and Ingram reaches everyone who matters—bookstores, libraries, and all kinds of retailers. Ingram does have a policy, however, that they may not accept “books created using artificial intelligence or automated processes.” Based on what happened with Fire and Fury, am*zon’s expanded distribution can make a book available for sale at Barnes & Noble and Bookshop in a matter of days. If the rising tide of AI-generated material keeps producing such questionable books—along with embarrassing and unwanted publicity—one has to ask if Barnes & Noble and Bookshop might decide to stop accepting self-published books altogether from Ingram or otherwise limit their acceptance. Obviously not good news for self-published authors, or Ingram either. What are some potential remedies? Ingram is an important waypoint here. They’ve put stronger quality control measures in place before. Perhaps they can be strengthened to prevent the worst material from reaching the market outside of am*zon. am*zon’s Expanded Distribution requires that authors use am*zon’s free ISBNs. Would it be possible for retailers to block any title with an am*zon ISBN? (ISBNs identify the publisher or where the material originated from.) While that may be unfair to honest people who prefer to use am*zon’s Expanded Distribution, such authors/publishers would still have the option of setting up their own IngramSpark account. IngramSpark has no upfront fees and also provides free ISBNs. Maybe IngramSpark or other retailers put a delay on making am*zon’s Expanded Distribution titles available for sale. am*zon already states it can take up to eight weeks for the book to go on sale. So why not make such titles wait? Free ISBNs unfortunately contribute to this problem ISBNs are a basic requirement to sell a print book through retail channels today. In the US, it is expensive to purchase ISBNs—it’s nearly $300 for ten. am*zon KDP does not require authors to purchase ISBNs and will give you ISBNs for free all day if you need them. Over time, others like IngramSpark and Draft2Digital have also made ISBNs free to make it easier for self-publishing authors to distribute their work. While it’s admirable to lower the barriers for authors who have limited funds, free ISBNs are supercharging the distribution of AI-generated materials to the wider retail market. An immediate way to stem this tide of garbage in the US market? Stop giving out free ISBNs. Make authors purchase their own. There’s a huge advantage to making authors purchase their own ISBNs: it creates an identifiable publisher of record with Bowker (the ISBN-issuing agency in the United States). The publisher of record would be listed at retailers. Currently, fraudsters using am*zon KDP are able to hide behind am*zon-owned ISBNs; their books are simply listed as “independently published.” It would be marvelous to take away that fig leaf. Sure, fraudsters could create sham entities that mean nothing and are unfindable in the end, but at least you could connect the dots on all the titles they’re releasing—plus Bowker would see who’s doing the purchasing and possibly put their own guardrails in place. My hope is these entities would choose not to buy ISBNs at all and this activity would become limited to the backwaters of am*zon. Professional self-publishing authors who distribute widely outside of am*zon are buying their own ISBNs already. Those who aren’t? I would consider it, because if nothing changes about the current situation, we may be entering a period where a book without an identifiable publisher (or author) is immediately considered suspect. And that’s another problem for self-publishing authors. As of this writing, Barnes & Noble still has Fire and Fury listed, with a sales rank of #24. But it is “temporarily out of stock,” which makes sense if am*zon is the distributor and it took down the book. How long will the ghost of it linger? URL https://janefriedman.com/how-ai-generated-books-could-hurt-self-publishing-authors/

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@ProfD no one can change the past, no one. Your correct. My intent wasn't to suggest the past need to be changed, the only thing that can truly be changed between today side yesterday is how anyone interpret the past. some black parents are, I concur. Many, don't be gentle, I argue most black folks in the USA beg to differ, regardless of their financial status. Which is fine, I don't have any problem with that.

@ProfD All I will say is your comment is in my view a disconnect , or not a reply to my point. You have simply reaffirmed your positions, But it doesn't relate to my point. About the past of the black community in the usa , its failures and how it has developed a dysfunctional heritage of parents to child. But I will say this. I was fortunate. My two black parents never lied to me about the world and I realize now how thankful I am for that.

@nels your missing the point. On the internet, all websites, all websites, all websites, have to deal with fake accounts. Yes, many websites in earlier days of the internet embraced these fake accounts, made some themselves, to manipulate their image. but, AALBC is a small website, and it isn't trying to give fake accounts a level playing field with accounts of interactive users. The compartmentalization is to tier and block fake accounts in an effective way for a small website to promote an inequal playing field between fake accounts and functional accounts. It seems to me, your suggesting finding a way to make fake accounts impotent will hinder the growth of allbc which is an odd position in my mind, cause I don't want fake accounts comments or interaction. Maybe you do.

@ProfD No, the standardized test of NYC can not be failed that large a percent and suggest they can read and write. no, its below par and again, a white jewish mother is why the case came forward. she was the one who was unsatisfied so... BUT you like many of the other commentors are evading the point YOu and many others who comment will speak to great lengths if black children failed in any way like these white children. Black children who unlike these white children are given nothing equivalent in gifts/money/ leisure/opportunity. All of you don't want to admit that the lean on me school never failed like these jewish schools have for decades, but your mouths are open all the time speaking to black children about what black children need to do while you are not providing for black children like white adults.

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We have patience you will succeed @Troy It will all work out. Right, the goal is to block user capability. With the overall design of the internet plus the tools available to those who want to invade various services online, it will be hard , nearest impossible to block access to the website, sequentially to fake accounts. But, you can block access to certain functions to all accounts fake or otherwise based on their activity which the badges even represent. If FuckNiggers is a new member with the face of Naomi Campbell why should that person be able to comment on posts that Richardmurray marked for only quality members. All members can view but why should all members be able to comment and like? Let members place their content in spaces. If Richard Murray makes a forum posts and finances of black children in the united states under ten years old and marks it for all members and FuckNiggers post a gif of a woman juggling her breast, that is richard murray's fault. You shouldn't have to spend time deleting accounts, make accounts earn spaces and let users be wise enough who have earned spaces to mark their content into spaces if they earned the ability. We will get there. As I said a while back, black people in the usa or elsewhere talk about what we don't do offline. And that is a complex thing. It isn't a straiight line or necessarily simple. But the one place Black people actually in my life time have been totally free to act is online and we don't act together here as potently as we could @nels self defeating in what way? Please explain your query in more detail

@Pioneer1 did you read the article, the jewish kids failed the standardized test over 90%, can you imagine how you would react if any black school had over 90% failure on a standardized test. It doesn't matter what methods the white jewish school were using for the white jewish children, they failed over 90% on the standardized tests. All kids in NYC have to take the standardized tests. The white jewish children been failing it for a long time. And, maybe you didn't read the article but the lawsuit that exposed this came from a white jewish parent who felt her child was being disserviced by the white jewish school. Did you read the article? Either you didn't read the article or you don't want to accept the truth it point to. Your position is invalid in the context of that article.

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@Troy wait, you have added an adjective. See this is the problem. I am speaking of racism, purely. Now you are saying american racism, which is more specific. You say I am wrong but then you use an adjective like that. Well... in the home I grew up in knowledge isn't enough, erudition and wisdom are more valuable. You say what I say may confuse black folks in the usa... well, then that explains the real problem. The problem isn't word definitions. The problem by your assertion is that the black community in the usa has developed and accepted incorrect, simple terms for convenience. That is a negative. I rather them be confused and then over time gain erudition and not be confused. Why should we speak to our kin as if they can't handle things. I oppose what you suggest. If an idea may confuse, it should be conveyed and the challenge is to comprehend which you can in time. What one human can do another can do. If one human , barring injury or manipulation, can comprehend a thing than so can any other, in similar fashion. Why is it you refute what I cited in the following comment? I know you don't troy. For you + @Pioneer1, as I said in the prior comment , you both link race to bias, and they are not linked... at least let me amend and say , me side others do not link racism with bias, while you Troy + Pioneer side others link racism to bias. Negativity utilizing a racism is negative bias. Bias is also positive. When a parent favors their child. That is a positive bias to their child using a genetically based racism, the racism being bloodline. It isn't based upon, again, your words + Pioneer's show a constant linkage and I oppose that. Racism can exist with unbiased approaches. You and Pioneer suggest that racism can not exist absent bias. I oppose that. When I walk out in the street, i see white people. I don't want to automatically attack them nor do I automatically want to run away from them and the law nor a set of conduct nor fear have anything to do with it.

@Pioneer1 racism can be based on any factor, not just skin color. racism can be based on religious affiliation,language,geographic descendencyy, family name which is not genetically based. While it can be based on hair, height, gender... skin which all have a genetic basis, cause genomes of the DNA in the complex biomolecular system of humans dictates them. Don't limit racism to phenotype simply because as black people we have dealt with negative bias from whites in a phenotypical racial system in the usa. Racism come in infinite forms , some are genetically based, some are not. But bias is not a key factor of racism, one from a phenotypical range thinking themselves better or worse than another in another phenotypical range isn't racism , it is bias. Bias can be positive or negative. But bias is never genetic . Emotions are not bias. And bias is never neutral, that is unbiased. To restate , and this is the problem with you or @Troy. Both of you make an automatic connection between bias side race that is dysfunctional. Troy suggest bias is race, and you embed bias into race. But neither suggestion is true. just because bias is not based on genetics doesn't mean some forms of race isn't. Just because humans choose to be biased in a racial system doesn't mean the racial system is biased. My proof is humanity. You have a last name but you don't hate or love most others who don't have your last name. You having a last name is racism. You are mostly unbiased to those who don't share your last name. But, you may have biases to some who do not share your last name. In the same way if you have a child they will be born with one of three things: a penis in which they are male, a vagina in which they are female, or they have a hybrid between penis and vagina in which they are a hermaphrodite. But if you are positively biased cause they are male, unbiased as their female, or negatively biased cause they are hermaphrodite, the bias isn't genetic. the race , gender, of your child is. but the bias to your child isn't. All racism are unbiased classifications. When I call someone white, that is unbiased. It isn't a slur or support. When I suggest negativity based on their phenotype that is bias.

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@Troy I once asked in this very group what literature in the black community reflects various groups, and people only spoke to their own group if at all. One of the hurdles of the future for the black community in the usa, with its specific situations, is Black people in the usa are going to have to embrace how various the tribes are in our community in the usa. I know I jumped away from the debate over the word race , but I did cause that debate is done. PEople can have different definitions for words. And I don't see any illogic in my usage, nor based on your elementals do I see illogic in yours. But the deeper issue is communication between tribes. Language reflects the subtle grouping one is in and I know Black people, some large tribes, in the usa have been, to be blunt, criminal in their acceptance of the multiintralingual presence in the black community in the past, and I see that hasn't ebbed. And that is a problem. To be blunt, it is black people who killed all the many Black lingual dialects all about the usa from enslaved times. Regardless of why, the heritage of that act is a hurdle for the future, I argue the present.

@Pioneer1 funny about that school, it is still the same, for all the movie's hype, the reality is a fiscal poor community is just that and education will not cause a leap while on the other hand while the lean on me school had these kind of speeches, white jewish children in nyc private schools were not being taught how to read or write to the simple city's standard and were given no speeches like this externally or internally, whatsoever. An those kids abrely able to write english were given trips to cancun and swimming and shops and all sorts of amenities. I will no longer tolerate black people in the usa acting like education is our problem when some communities are getting away with not educating their children at all, and being chastised by few to no one externally or internally. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2064&type=status Clark passed away but to him and all the other blacks, many who chime in this community talking about what black children need to do educationally, I say shut the fuck up and do what the white jewish adults are doing for their ignorant children, giving them a golden road. SHut up clark, shut up any of those like you and give black children the world, cause that is what white children , who can't read or write are being given by their adults. No Excuse Black Adults.

@Troy i have another solution, this is your website, you should have the programmability to place users in racial camps and have powers based on that. meaning what. users who have paid for an aalbc author page + users who are on the forum but have achieved certain badges + users who have achieved a certain level of interaction are allowed to have two types of posts. Public + Quality. In a quality forum posts only those who have earned the quality ranking can create or comment. While all users can see or share. In a public posts it is open to all for total functionality. But only quality users have utilize either form of post, thus all the fake accounts by default start with public only and based on a set of factors will never reach quality as they barely post. Thus it allows all quality users the ability to post to a quality space or public space, where quality users can communicate to each other while non quality users can only watch. Instead of filtering bad users, allow users based on performance on the website to have an alternative posting abillity that is accessible only to the qualified.

@Delano you didn't you said what I was thinking but didn't articulate honestly was all people are meant to survive, all people, and the proof is all people do.

@Troy I can not tell you how many writing groups I have been part of where the following came up side my fellow crafters of words. Even as a child. But here we go again. Websters is wrong. PEople are misusing the word, it is that simple. And I go one further. Webster's and many dictionaries in all earnest puts too much weight on figurative evaluations in words. I don't care if 99 percent of people use a word a certain way. 99% are simply using it wrongly. Racism/Bias/Prejudice are not as defined in websters. And I will use the definition you gave to support my point. You said First, a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits. well how does your websters define race That isn't race:) Troy, that isn't race. Race isn't a divider of humanity. Race isn't bounded to physical traits. Race is any classification scheme that can be applied on humanity by humans. Me , you, Schtrumpf, Nahomie Osaka are human beings, children of earth. That is the shared ancestry. The fact that three of us are male and one is female. Three of us are black and one is white. One has recent asian lineage and three don't. One speaks japanese , three don't. All speak english. These are not dividers, it is merely a classification scheme. So websters definition of race is false. Which makes sense cause their definition of racism is false. What divides human beings are rules or policies, not racism. The train track didn't divide towns because black people side non blacks don't share the same shades of skin. Non blacks power+ policies made the train track divide, and it was the bias in their use of power or creation of policies, not racism. No point in going further because the primary explanation to the word is false by webster. A classification scheme isn't even a belief. it is a tool. But when webster placed race as webster defines it their definition is totally flawed. Race is a classification scheme applied on any grouping. When humans say, lions and tigers are cats that is racism. Racism is actions to define race. When humans make a book describing cats that is racism. Bias is making an opinion on a race When humans say black cats are evil, that is bias. When humans say the pig can not be eaten, that is bias When humans say the cow can not be eaten, that is bias humans calling another human black is racism. humans calling another human stupid cause their black is bias humans calling another human woman is racism humans calling another human foolish cause their woman is bias humans calling another human old is racism humans calling another human weak cause their old is bias humans calling another human christian is racism humans calling another human fanatics cause their christian is bias Now, having preached , I apologize again, I already know most folk don't use the words the way I do. I know. And I know you troy or others will continue to use words as you have. I comprehend 100%. But your wrong. that is what I will conclude on. it is that simple. Use words better, trust me, it matters. @Delano I don't know the south american country you are referring to but white argentines who controlled the argentine government, didn't kick out black argentineans, they murdered them wholesale.

@Troy thank you, black people everywhere have always fought back against the non black, the problem is when non blacks anywhere escalate, usually <not everywhere all the time>many and sadly most black people tend to relent or melt away. in this very comment stream you have the theme of nonviolence, which comes from more than a sense of peace, it also comes from fear. Luckily in modernity, non blacks in the usa don't have the same sense of unity as the near past. Immigration since 1965 has changed all communities in the usa in multiple ways. I know I beat the dead horse but the IRA comprehended most irish who might be in for a march or blowing up a store wasn't ready for escalation. But the IRA was and thus achieved their result. I do not advocate nonviolence or violence, but either way has negative or positive sequences and too many in my view, focus too much on the positiive sequences of nonviolence or the negative sequences of violence absent comprehending both holistically