“I do not have a proof, but I’m fairly confident I stumbled upon an early example of a monetized machine-generated book.”
“NFT for Beginners” ranked #3 on Amazon with hundreds of five-star reviews. Midway through, it drifts into a “Net Price Calculator” and then a chemotherapy protocol. lcamtuf is fairly sure no human wrote it. A language model did, and fake reviews sold it. Amazon took the money first and removed the reviews later.