2023-08-08
He took the website down but that doesn't account for the theft and the database he fed our books into. Publishers and authors need to be aggressive and not let this go. Guys like this will just let the fury die down and quietly restart.
Jane Friedman
An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint
Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
He took the website down but that doesn't account for the theft and the database he fed our books into. Publishers and authors need to be aggressive and not let this go. Guys like this will just let the fury die down and quietly restart.
TechCrunch
Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses
Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words R...