Amazon has about 200 books written with ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence tool, for sale, a situation that is seen as a threat to writers.
Number 200 was advanced by the Reuters agency at the end of February and, in the following days, there were warnings about the risks of this tool, such as that of Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Authors Guild, the largest and oldest organization. of professional writers in the United States.
“These books will flood the market and many authors will lose their jobs,” he said, quoted by the BusinessInsider website.
An example of a book written entirely by the ‘robot’ is “ChatGPT on ChatGPT: The AI explains itself” (“ChatGPT on ChatGPT: Artificial intelligence explains itself”) and the paper version costs 11.9 dollars (11 euros). Free in the Kindle version.
Another is “The “Wise Little Squirrel” (“The little wise squirrel”), by Brett Schickler, a salesman from Rochester, New York, who fulfilled the dream of writing a book, but with ChatGPT.
It has 30 pages, was written in a few hours with this tool and is on sale on Amazon Kindle, in digital version, for $2.99 (2.8 euros), or $9.99 (9.5 euros) in the printed.
By the end of February, Shickler had earned less than $100 (93 euros), he told Reuters.
Amazon has said that all books in its online store must comply with intellectual property regulations, but it has not said anything about a possible change in the regulations on the use of technology. OpenAI, which released ChatGPT, declined to comment.
Artificial intelligence promises a revolution in Internet search and other uses, but experts warn that it also presents risks, such as breaching privacy, biased algorithms, which will require regulation, which is difficult to implement as these technologies advance rapidly.
Generative artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, are capable of generating, from a simple text, creating extremely complex texts, answering questions, creating new questions, creating content, journalistic pieces.
In the description of the Portuguese specialist Luís Paulo Reis, made to Lusa, it is also possible to make programs for higher or secondary education subjects, answers to exams, even create exams.
Source: TSF
