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Who (or what) is the hottest new author in Amazon’s bookstore?

Answer: ChatGPT, of course.

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The bot strikes again. The popular large language model chatbot ChatGPT from OpenAI was recently found to be credited as the author or co-author of more than 200 titles in Amazon’s bookstore.

A number of the books, which range in format from paperback to e-books, are guides to using ChatGPT. For example, ChatGPT on ChatGPT: The AI Explains Itself was apparently written entirely by the bot. There are also a significant number of children’s books that were written by ChatGPT and illustrated by another AI, like Midjourney.

Reuters noted that the real number of ChatGPT and other AI-authored books on Amazon is likely higher, because the platform doesn’t require disclosure of the use of AI.