Posting books is easier than ever. For a while, looking for a great editorial that buys your project and publishes you in bookstores has simply become one more option. Many others decide for something simpler: self -publishing through Amazon, which incorporates a platform with which you can sell your books in just a few steps.
This option has allowed democratizing the publication, something very positive that has led to the arrival of writers who would never have been published. However, it has also generated the proliferation of thousands of books of doubtful quality and even false authorship.
One of the books written by AI TDAHAmazon
The era of non-writing
There are more and more “authors” who write with chatgpt and self -edge with Amazon
Like now it is easy to publish, it is also to write. Or, at least, give it a button for artificial intelligence to write for you. There are more and more “authors” that follow this vagus business model: they write with Chatgpt and self -edge with Amazon. Without even reading what the robot has done for them. Some writers, such as Tim Boucher, have more than 120 books published on the platform (and up). And if it is strange short novels or books of (doubtful) history, nothing has to happen. But when it comes to mental health books, the thing changes.
The Guardian has examined, through Originality.AI, an American company that detects content generated by artificial intelligence, eight books sold on Amazon who are based on giving advice to people suffering from ADHD. Among them, titles such as ‘How to face ADHD in men appear: discover how to prosper with a late diagnosis’, ‘Men with ADHD in adulthood: highly effective techniques to master concentration, time management and overcoming anxiety’ and ‘diet and exercise for men with ADHD in adulthood’.
All these books released a 100% coincidence of text written by AI. So there is no doubt: they are a fraud. And, of course, a great danger to people who, suffering some disorder of this style, see in these manuals a guide to get out of the well.
AI can have been trained with medical articles, but also with pseudoscience, conspiracy and fiction theories
Michael CookKing’s College computer researcher in London
“The generative AI systems such as Chatgpt may have been trained with many textbooks and medical articles, but they have also been trained with pseudoscience, conspiracy and fiction theories,” explains Michael Cook, a computer researcher at the King’s College in London. Without a doubt, it is not a good idea to trust an AI (which has no awareness or expected) to improve our mental health. But there are many people taking advantage of these vulnerabilities to do business.
Among the content of these books, in addition to finding all kinds of conceptual errors, tips arise that can be dangerous for the readers themselves. In a chapter of one of them it is suggested that the impulsive anger of ADHD can leave “lasting scars” in the emotional environment, without offering real therapeutic alternatives or contextualization. In others, this “catastrophic” is described, ensuring that those who suffer from it have “four times more likely to die young”, a sensational and decontextualized statement that can lead to depression.
Cover of a book written by AI ADHDAmazon
For his part, Amazon has only defended himself by saying that they have “content guidelines that regulate what books can be put on sale.” They also explain that they use “proactive and reagent methods that help us detect content that violates our guidelines, either generated by AI or not.” However, these books do not stop emerging with more and more speed. And soon we run the danger of not knowing who is on the other side of the page.
