Cam Wilson, who is the ABC's AI reporter, recently discovered an AI-generated book about him and a book he wrote.
Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
Bona Books share a hard-learned lesson: we accidentally bought AI-generated fiction. This deep dive into our experience with submission fraud covers the "red flags" we missed, the toll it took on our small press, and our call for industry-wide solidarity against AI-written content. Learn h
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space...
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
Amelia Wattenberger
I create things on the web, explore novel interfaces, turn data into meaning, and empower devs with AI.
God Damn AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...
New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article
People are speculating that an essay published in the New York Times' "Modern Love" was AI-generated. What's definitely real? AI paranoia.
Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions.
I think it’s telling that people very interested in AI (like Eugene and myself) still have no interest in using it as a proxy for human communication. “Being a good writer” is not the same thing as having social agency, and making the models even better at writing won’t change that.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
When you deploy heavily LLM text, you currently have no way to prove that you actually read it and therefore cannot convince me to read it
Books destroyed in the name of AI*
Specifically related to the physical destruction of books in the process of using them as training material. Search terms: Project Panama * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
【独自】古書店で「謎の大量注文」相次ぐ……AI学習か 米国向け「日本の本 50トン」の輸出記録も（2026年9月22日掲載）｜日テレNEWS NNN
出版取次の日販、米AI企業に書籍を大量販売か 業界団体が説明要求：朝日新聞
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
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