Originality.ai flags 1,272 of 2,034 Amazon religious titles as machine-written

Detection firm Originality[.]ai scanned religious books on Amazon and found that about two-thirds of them were probably written by AI.

The discovery impacts millions of readers who buy faith and spirituality titles sight unseen. Cheap, machine-made books are pouring into Amazon’s store faster than the retailer can review them.

Originality.ai flagged 1,272 of 2,034 titles it scanned.

The firm found that 78% of the titles in the Wicca, Witchcraft, and Paganism category were likely written by AI, the highest share of any category.

Hinduism followed at 76% and Taoism at 74%. At the other end, Satanism was lowest at 22%. Atheism was 40%, and Mormonism was 42%.

Those three categories had far fewer titles to draw from, so their percentages are based on thinner samples. The report’s author, Michael Fraiman, noted that authors pumping out AI books chase the busiest categories, which may explain why the small subgenres show less of it.

Witchcraft relied on crystals, herbal remedies, and cleansing “negative energies,” the kind of stuff that sells without having to clear any scientific bar.

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