AI-written books flood Amazon bestseller lists — and readers keep buying
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-13
El País reports that many of Amazon's self-published bestsellers involve substantial AI writing, and the share keeps growing. Notably, heavily AI-assisted works still earn good reviews and sell well — readers either can't tell or don't care, since AI now writes genuinely well. The poster also calls AI-detection tool Pangram quite unreliable despite it becoming the de facto reference in this space.
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