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Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[–] whileloop@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Anyone got ideas on how we can limit AI effectively?

Teach your children to value artists and content creators

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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.