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It also depends on what qualifies as 'published'. If a bot generates 100 nonsensical children's books with an LLM, lists them all on Amazon, and then takes them

It also depends on what qualifies as 'published'. If a bot generates 100 nonsensical children's books with an LLM, lists them all on Amazon, and then takes them down a day later before anyone notices any of them (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779643), then were they ever really published?

Bluestein 2y ago
I - ignorantly - wonder what the whole point of that might be? - they cannot possibly sell that many in the intervening time ...
- whythre 2y ago
  Padding numbers? ‘Our shitty bot has successfully* published* hundreds of books!’
  - Bluestein 2y ago
    That is awful. (Though you are probably entirely correct ...) (The only one's benefiting from that are the slop "shovels" purveyors to the AI-slop gold rush ...)