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Alleged ChatGPT-Generated Book with a Duplicate Title, Fake Author, and Similar Content Surfaces on Amazon Ahead of Real Author's Book Release
- Occurred
- Feb 3, 2023
- Published
- May 5, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The author Chris Cowell had spent more than a year writing his book "Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines" when, three weeks before its release, another book appeared bearing the exact title by an author (Marie Karpos) for whom no information could be found. The book appeared to have been written by ChatGPT. While the original Washington Post story does not say so, it is possible the name and description were taken from the Amazon preorder page.
Developers
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT
Deployers
- InKstall
- Marie Karpos
Harmed parties
- Chris Cowell
Tags
- generative AI
- generated books
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: ChatGPT-generated content caused copyright and authorship issues on Amazon.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8