From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 09:58:38 -0400

With thanks to Gary Price.  When was your last "knowledge update"? Now
beware of Google searches for books (Google Scholar, anyone?).

"Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up
in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an
important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history.

"I was able to find the AI-generated books with the same method we’ve
previously used to find AI-generated Amazon product reviews, papers
published in academic journals, and online articles. Searching Google Books
for the term “As of my last knowledge update,” which is associated with
ChatGPT-generated answers, returns dozens of books that include that
phrase. Some of the books are about ChatGPT, machine learning, AI, and
other related subjects and include the phrase because they are discussing
ChatGPT and its outputs. These books appear to be written by humans.
However, most of the books in the first eight pages of results turned up by
the search appear to be AI-generated and are not about AI."

Full Text here:

https://www.404media.co/email/f03d4cfc-84b4-4a2b-bd95-33432235c0f7/