AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
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AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres. The findings could give copyright plaintiffs the market-harm data their cases against AI companies have been missing. The article AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors appeared first on The Decoder .
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