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I'm not sure of the situation in France, but this is starting to happen readily on Amazon. Lots of physical books you can buy that are completely AI-generated n
by ajdude 3y ago
I'm not sure of the situation in France, but this is starting to happen readily on Amazon. Lots of physical books you can buy that are completely AI-generated nonsense.
- rchaud 3y agoAre those books from real publishers or from Amazon's Print on Demand service?
- bambax 3y agoI should have been clearer; it's not just ebooks that are exempt, but anything without an ISBN. You can make a paper book with Amazon print-on-demand that doesn't have an ISBN, and then you don't need to send it to the dépôt-légal. Many people argue this is bad and should be changed. But it's debatable.
- erwan577 3y agoAccording to https://www.bnf.fr/fr/depot-legal-pour-quels-documents https://www.bnf.fr/fr/depot-legal-pour-quels-documents, pure ebooks are not exempt; they are just archived directly from the distribution platforms by sampling. What scares me is that some mixed works (PDF/on-demand prints) are not archived because the authors think the system is too clunky to deal with, which is really a shame for books like https://laurent.claessens-donadello.eu/pdf/lefrido.pdf https://laurent.claessens-donadello.eu/pdf/lefrido.pdf, for example.