Do you use Google Books to find books on a particular topic, or Google Scholar to dive into academic research? Here's what you need to know. These sites, which allow users to “search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books” and search academic literature in any field, begin indexing low-quality books generated by AI Did. Written by a real human author.
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This tip comes from 404 Media and uses a simple trick to track your AI-generated books.
When you mention current events in ChatGPT, you'll often see the phrase “as of the latest knowledge update.” This is just a way for OpenAI to let you know that the information you can access is time-limited.
However, if you search Google Books for the specific phrase “as of the latest knowledge update,” you'll find books that appear to feature content directly generated by ChatGPT.
A quick search for that phrase turned up pages and pages of titles. Some of the books are actually about his ChatGPT and include that language to show its limitations, while dozens of others are about his AI-generated writing in an attempt to make it look like the real thing. is.
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For example, one book about the Boston Marathon bombings, when referring to the attackers, wrote, “As of my last update in September 2021, this case remains the subject of legal proceedings and has not yet been finalized.'' The outcome was still unclear.'' The book's “author” has 50 other works, including titles on the Cold War, 9/11, the American Founding Fathers, ancient Rome, famous boxers, and famous Native Americans.
All of these titles were published in 2023 (it took ZDNET's Jack Warren 30 years to publish that many books) and ranged in page count from 50 to 100 pages. Browsing through them, I found that they all resembled Wikipedia entries at best, and at worst provided a superficial narrative that made it seem like ChatGPT was simply regurgitating facts. Ta.
A quick search online reveals these books are sold on Amazon and other retailers.
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When I connected the same phrase to Google Scholar, which is supposed to be a repository of human research, I found 19 papers on at-risk youth, diabetes, autism, COVID-19, and airline pilot fatigue. Page results returned.
The fact that AI-generated content is out there is nothing new, but it's a little worrying when it appears alongside authentic content in trusted resources like Google Books and Google Scholar. .
Google told 404 Media that it “continues to evaluate our approach as the world of book publishing evolves,” but did not say it would remove these results from search.