Feb 22, 2023 12:30:00

'Books written by ChatGPT' are sold in large quantities on Amazon

The chat AI 'ChatGPT' developed by OpenAI has attracted a lot of attention due to its extremely high performance, but it has also caused social problems, such as

the rapid increase in the number of plagiarized novels that seem to use ChatGPT. increase. Meanwhile, overseas media are reporting on the current situation where a large number of 'books written in a short time using ChatGPT' are being sold on Amazon.

ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/

ChatGPT is overtly and covertly writing novels and short stories and the industry is freaking out | TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/97684-chatgpt-overtly-covertly-writing-novels-short-stories-industry.html

Since the appearance of ChatGPT, many people have come to think that they can easily make money using ChatGPT . A large number of books with contents such as 'Write a novel using ChatGPT' and 'Generate infinite blog articles with ChatGPT' will be hit.

The above situation is also occurring in countries other than Japan, and Amazon.com (US Amazon) sells a large number of books that describe how to write novels and blog articles using ChatGPT. increase.

According to Reuters, Amazon.com sells many ``books written with ChatGPT'' in addition to ``books about how to use ChatGPT''. As an example, the wealth building book '

The Wise Little Squirrel: A Tale of Saving and Investing ' shown in the image below is written by Brett Schickler, who has no writing experience, on ChatGPT, 'A story about a father teaching his son about financial literacy. It was written with instructions such as 'write.' The book was sold for $ 2.99 (about 400 yen) for the e-book version and $ 9.99 (about 1350 yen) for the paper book version, and Mr. Sickler earned about $ 100 (about 13,500 yen). I got

Regarding writing a book using ChatGPT, Mr. Sickler said, ``I never dreamed that I would become a writer. I felt that I could do this.”

However, writing books using ChatGPT has the problem of ``unconsciously plagiarizing other people's works published on the Internet''. In fact, the AI-produced article of the major media 'CNET' was pointed out as plagiarism , and the SF novel magazine 'Clarkesworld Magazine' was forced to stop accepting new submissions due to the rapid increase in plagiarism by AI. impact is becoming a reality.

Posts of ``plagiarism written by AI'' exploded and science fiction magazines stopped recruiting new works-GIGAZINE

In addition, it has been pointed out that books written by humans may be buried in the market because the writing of books using AI is much faster than writing by human power. For example, the following children's book ' Bedtime Stories: Short and Sweet, For a Good Night's Sleep ' was written in just four hours using ChatGPT.

On the other hand, it is pointed out that many books written by AI are very boring. Writer Mark Dawson said, ``Books written by ChatGPT are boring.'' ``Whether or not a book becomes popular depends on how interesting the book is. ”, emphasizing the superiority of books written by humans.