Amazon has created a new rule limiting the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale in recent months.
The company announced the new limitations in a post on its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) forum on Monday. “While we have not seen a spike in our publishing numbers, in order to help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place on new title creations,” read the statement. KDP allows authors to self-publish their books and list them for sale on Amazon’s site.
Amazon told the Guardian that the limit is set at three titles, though this number may be adjusted “if needed”. The company confirmed that there was previously no limit to the number of books authors could list a day.
No author publishing even 1 book a week is legit. 3 books a day? Yea, that’s still AI.
They even admit this rule is trash.
The rule change will “probably not” be a “gamechanger for managing the influx of AI-written content on Amazon’s platform,”
They could have written them and are just getting around to publishing them on Amazon if it is a one time thing.
Do they short stories as titles? Stephen King could have cranked out that many if he didn’t care about quality control back in his cocaine days.
if he didn’t care about quality control back in his cocaine days.
He kind of didn’t.
3 books a day? Yea, that’s still AI.
It seems plausible that an author might have a catalogue of more than 3 books and might choose to publish them on Amazon all at the same time. Still, that could probably be alleviated by having the throttling kick in after some initial threshold is reached, say 12 total.
It’s crazy that this is even necessary. I can’t imagine the sheer amount of crap people upload every day, completely ruining it for us serious Indie writers in the process.
Now people will avoid self published books even more than before.
I give up there sooo much garbage on there I have no way to get people to find my novel and word of mouth isn’t enough. I am currently looking for an agent for my next book.
Was thinking about that and decided to just shelve my books for now and decide later. Not in a hurry to publish.
Not if they are regulated to put an “In Full or in Part AI Generated” label on it.
Not even AI can detect AI-generated text though.
Now people will rely on social cred. Indie authors would have to rely on social media and blogging to come accross as attractive enough for their written works to be interesting. Same with any other indie-related fields, really.
That’ll only last for a few seconds.
But this time next year, the number of Astro turfed fake online personas that are AI generated is going to be insane.
Unless someone finds a way to fight it (which I’m not counting on)
The ai authors will have real conversations with other ai profiles, making it look like a real person with real family and real friends.
We are entering the post-truth era.
May your deity of choice have mercy on our souls.
Every generated thing I’ve ever read has been pure garbage.
If you truly think a terrible imitation of AI can replace your work, you might just be a fucking awful writer.
Well I’m an awful writer, so yes
But it’s more that I think the ai will very decent works in the search engines and listings on websites
Because the listings and search on websites are also generated content and not overly intelligent
Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concernsAmazon enables AI books to continue self-publishing
FTFYIf they actually wanted to stop them they could, easily, but why would they, they clearly make them easy money…
I 110% guarantee that this issue was brought to the attention of several people with the ability to rapidly implement a fix, but the subject was dropped when cost to develop was mentioned. Amazon is the glass and steel incarnation of human malice.
And the AIs probably run in AWS, so it generates them money while it generates them money.
Just a reminder that if you’re using ai to write your book, your book has less worth than your last dump.
What kind of an author is publishing more than 3 books a day??? Who is mad about this?
Chuck Tingle may have to slow down a bit but that’s ok, he deserves evenings off
Dr. Chuck Tingle is the only buckaroo I could think of who might hit this volume. Don’t forget to SHOW LOVE!
Pounded in the Butt by Amazon’s Less Than 3 Self-Published Books a Day Restriction
Brandon Sanderson comes to mind.
Considering he’s already sworn off Amazon, I dont think that’s an issue.
I was going to say this is a devastating blow to James Patterson’s team of ghostwriters
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3 per Day, really? Lol
We need some real, serious limits on AI use and development. This is only going to get worse from here. Anyone got ideas on how we can limit AI effectively?
Anyone got ideas on how we can limit AI effectively?
Teach your children to value artists and content creators
Yes!
Use it to replace the jobs of your bosses and CEO’s. Convince enough people at the top that it is a threat to them, and we will have laws overnight.
Three books a day is completely plausible, but four? Nobody can type that fast. /s
George R. R. Martin: ok.
Wow! Only three bookks a day? Publish or parish thing has gotten out of control.
Disgusting. How do you write a book using AI?
Badly.
