Study finds Amazon self-published fiction flooded with AI-generated prose
windx0303 · x · 2026-07-29
A new study on AI-written books argues that Amazon is being flooded with self-published genre fiction containing substantial AI-generated text.
- The researchers used AI detection software to analyze thousands of self-published novels on Amazon.
- They found that many books contain chatbot-generated prose.
- The paper argues that this matters not only because readers may not notice, but because large volumes of AI-generated titles can crowd out non-AI books and affect sales.
- The authors say the key issue is scale: a book does not need to be high quality to influence the market if thousands of such books can be produced quickly.
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