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New York Times: A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks
Thread poster: Thomas T. Frost
Thomas T. Frost
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Aug 10, 2023

Amazon is being flooded by AI-generated rubbish travel guidebooks and fake reviews of them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-artificial-intelligence.html

I think a whole new landscape of AI fraud may evolve.

Susmi Rosenthal
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Jennifer Levey
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It is surely only a matter of time ... Aug 10, 2023

... before Proz.com's newest member
https://www.proz.com/profile/670924?phpv_redirected=1
starts posting here on the Forum, telling us how we're all doomed.

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Aug 11, 2023



[Edited at 2023-08-11 02:18 GMT]
 
Peter Motte
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And why... Aug 11, 2023

... am I not surprised?

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Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
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Right? Aug 11, 2023

Peter Motte wrote:

... am I not surprised?

I'm more like "what took them so long?"

Mr. Satan (X)
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Jeff Whittaker
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I started my own shop for books about languages and translation Aug 12, 2023

Thomas T. Frost wrote:

Amazon is being flooded by AI-generated rubbish travel guidebooks and fake reviews of them.


I was having such a difficult time weeding out all the junk books and I thought others may be having the same problem, so I decided to start my own Amazon list for books about languages, language learning and translation. It became so popular that Amazon gave me my own private shop. It now contains over 3000 books. Clicking on each book cover will take to a separate book list:

https://www.amazon.com/shop/languagecrawler

Here's the page for linguistics: https://www.amazon.com/shop/languagecrawler/list/2ZKOYJ4CVMZWH?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d



[Edited at 2023-08-12 03:10 GMT]

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Thomas T. Frost
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What next? Fake music? Aug 12, 2023

I guess sooner or later we'll see fake AI-generated music imitating hits.

The Rolling Bones: Fart Me Up

Various hits by The Peach Boys

Bony Taylor: Total Collapse of the Cart

The Beat Legs: albums like Robber Sole and Shabby Toad with hits like Let It See and Here Comes the Fun.

The possibilities are endless.

Of course, fraud is one of the oldest trades in the world. AI is just a new tool for that 'profession'.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
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Love the song titles of the hits from albums by the Beat Legs Aug 13, 2023

Thomas T. Frost wrote:

I guess sooner or later we'll see fake AI-generated music imitating hits.

The Rolling Bones: Fart Me Up

Various hits by The Peach Boys

Bony Taylor: Total Collapse of the Cart

The Beat Legs: albums like Robber Sole and Shabby Toad with hits like Let It See and Here Comes the Fun.

The possibilities are endless.

Of course, fraud is one of the oldest trades in the world. AI is just a new tool for that 'profession'.



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New York Times: A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks







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