THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL FOR THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE MAY BE SUBSTACKIAN ERIC HOEL'S JUST COMPLAINT OF CHEAP BOT-GHOSTED PSEUDOBOOKS:
"last year I published a nonfiction book, The World Behind the World, and now on Amazon I find this.
What, exactly, are these “workbooks” for my book? AI pollution. Synthetic trash heaps floating in the online ocean. The authors aren’t real people, some asshole just fed the manuscript into an AI and didn’t check when it spit out nonsensical summaries.
But it doesn’t matter, does it? A poor sod will click on the $9.99 purchase one day, and that’s all that’s needed for this scam to be profitable… Now that generative AI has dropped the cost of producing bullshit to near zero, we see clearly the future of the internet: a garbage dump.
Google search? ... amid the real things you’ll find dozens of AI-written summaries in response... and people openly shill their services for creating them... Scientific papers are being AI-generated. AI images mix into historical research.
