AI book scammers are still thriving on Amazon’s marketplace.
Just a day after a new book about the AI industry’s race to build a powerful artificial general intelligence hit the shelves, its author Kevin Roose discovered that a scammer was already trying to trick his readers — by using AI.
On Amazon, an apparent machine-generated duplicate of the book, titled “The AGI Chronicles,” is freely circulating on the platform and even showing up right beneath the real deal in the e-commerce giant’s search results.
It looks a lot like the real thing, but is listed for a bargain $24.69 compared to the original book’s $30.00 — something that’s clearly intended to fool unsuspecting customers who are looking to save a few bucks.
