After dropshipping and unknown Chinese brands that sell anything and anything, Amazon faces a new problem. With the generalization of generative artificial intelligence, books and guides created from scratch begin to occupy an important place in the American giant market square.
A disturbing resurgence for specialists contacted by The Guardian, especially because some books generated by AI deal with heavy and complex themes, such as ADHD, deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity.
100% books written by an AI
These books support different ways of treating disorder, whether one is a man, a woman, a simple adult, who seeks to “control her concentration” or “overcome anxiety”, even with diets and sports programs.
The English media examined eight pounds using the origin recognition tool. They show that everyone has been 100% written by an AI.
Amazon is becoming “a savage west”, according to the contacted specialists, who evoke a real risk of misinformation in this increasingly mentioned disorder worldwide. Michael Cook, a King’s College researcher in London, says he is “frustrated” by these books that can give dangerous advice: “The generative systems of AI such as Chatgpt have perhaps been trained in many manuals and medical articles, but they were also trained in pseudoscience, conspiracy and fiction theories.”
The researcher points out models unable to critically or faithfully reproduce the knowledge they have stored: “It is not as simple as to ask an AI to” remember “something (…) AI should not be able to deal with sensitive or dangerous issues without the surveillance of an expert.”
Dangerous advice in the rendezvous
For Michael Cook, it is the Amazon business business that is involved because it encourages this type of practice.
Shannon Vallor, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, regrets that Amazon does not have an “ethical responsibility” to design a market that avoids damage to customers, even if for her, it would be “absurd” to make a bookseller be responsible for the content of the books he sells.
In the examples called to the care of researchers by The Guardian, and that refer to ADHD, historical inaccuracies, random anecdotes, see not available advice and that can create emotional deregulation are observed.
Other tips can also prove to be counterproductive, especially when books explain that disorder can lead to their loved ones to abandon it, or that a ADHD person has “four times more likely to die before.”
Amazon responded to Guardian that he had “proactive and reactive” methods to detect content that “violates directives”, either generated by AI or not. The fact is that nothing prevents selling these contents completely generated by AA in Amazon, although they are accused of not respecting copyright.
Source: BFM TV
