🚨 New paper on AI and Copyright 🚨 It's easy to dismiss AI-written books 📚 as slop nobody buys. So, armed with full-text AI detection from
@pangram, we studied self-published genre fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to 2026 March Turns out Amazon is flooded with books with substantial AI text and these books are earning significant 💰💸 and most importantly, crowding out sales of non-AI books. FWIW, a book doesn't need to be high quality to have a market impact. It just has to exist in the thousands, which Generative AI enables. Joint w/
@dhillon_p(
@UMich),
@irisiris_l(
@stonybrooku) & Jane Ginsburg (
@ColumbiaLaw) (1/n) 🧵