'Life Or Death:' AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon

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By msmashAug 29, 2023, 12:00 pm177 pts
samleecole writes: A genre of AI-generated books on Amazon is scaring foragers and mycologists: cookbooks and identification guides for mushrooms aimed at beginners. Amazon has an AI-generated books problem that's been documented by journalists for months. Many of these books are obviously gibberish designed to…

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