[LegionMammal978]

It also depends on what qualifies as 'published'. If a bot generates 100 nonsensical children's books with an LLM, lists them all on Amazon, and then takes them down a day later before anyone notices any of them (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779643), then were they ever really published?

[Bluestein]

I - ignorantly - wonder what the whole point of that might be? - they cannot possibly sell that many in the intervening time ...

[whythre]

Padding numbers? ‘Our shitty bot has successfully* published* hundreds of books!’

[Bluestein]

That is awful. (Though you are probably entirely correct ...)

(The only one's benefiting from that are the slop "shovels" purveyors to the AI-slop gold rush ...)