For Governing, Jule Pattison-Gordon on how librarians are handling the slop trying to enter the public catalog.
When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the Nathan Yau has written. And you see there’s 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says. Typically, AI-generated books list an author with little to no digital footprint. And while a small or lacking online presence could indicate a new author just starting out, it takes humans time to write. One book every year or so is normal; dozens of titles per year start looking quite suspicious.
