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AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI生成书籍正淹没亚马逊，并拉低人类作者的单书收入
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
The DecoderAI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres. The findings could give copyright plaintiffs the market-harm data their cases against AI companies have been missing.
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