By mid-February, ChatGPT authored or co-authored over 200 books sold through Amazon's Kindle e-book platform.
The development has raised concerns among authors that low-quality AI books will squeeze human authors out of the market.
- Several tutorials have emerged on TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms explaining how AI can be used to produce books in a matter of hours.
- "These books will flood the market, and a lot of authors are going to be out of work," warned Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Authors Guild, a writer's group.
- Amazon's policies do not currently require authors to disclose whether books sold through its platform were written in part or entirely by artificial intelligence.
- Amazon did not respond to Reuters' request for comment about whether it plans to review its policies surrounding AI authorship.