📖 AI-Created Books: Chance or Threat?
In this eye-opening episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, Professor GePhardT unpacks the fascinating, chaotic and sometimes alarming rise of AI-generated books. From Amazon’s restrictions on AI content to the ethics of machine-written storytelling, this episode dives deep into the future of publishing and what it means for readers, writers and creators.

We explore how AI-written books are made, why platforms are overwhelmed and how readers can distinguish human creativity from machine-made text. You’ll hear surprising real-world cases, including the Clarkesworld shutdown and the now-infamous “82% AI-written” herbal remedy category on Amazon.

📌 What you’ll learn:

How AI book generation actually works
Why AI is both a creative partner and a creative threat
The risks of misinformation in AI-written books
How to spot an AI-generated book
Why platforms like Amazon are tightening their rules
The future of authorship in an AI-saturated world

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Quotes from the Episode

“A book is more than content; it’s a relationship between the mind that wrote it and the mind that reads it.”
“AI doesn’t dream, doubt or desire — it just predicts what comes next.”
“AI can help creativity bloom, but it can also bury real voices under mountains of machine-written noise.”

🧑🏻 About Dietmar Fischer
Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to kickstart your AI or digital marketing journey, he’s your guy!

You can find him at Argoberlin.com

🎧 Music credit: “Modern Situations” by Unicorn Heads

November 17, 2025 - Jonathan Larsen | Mietek Boduszynski | Ben Freeman