Deep Dive on AI Book Spoofing on Amazon: Fakes targeting authors including Karen Swallow Prior and Kyla Scanlon
I originally learned about the AI book spoofing problem in mid-August when I was on Substack and came across a Substack note from Karen Swallow Prior complaining about fake books on Amazon coinciding with a book release (this is common in book spoofing, according to the Author's Guild). I have a background in financial crimes intelligence analysis and open-source intelligence analysis (OSINT) and I write about generative artificial intelligence risks, misuse. So, out of curiosity, I looked into Prior's claims. Then, in early October, I came across complaints by author Kyla Scanlon on X/Twitter dealing with the same issues and looked into those too.
Chad Ratashak
