Show HN: I published 100 AI generated books on Amazon

mrpeanutbutter · on Jan 19, 2020

I clicked a Look Inside and must say the content is slightly more coherent than I thought it would be.

Did you make the list of topics yourself?

Is anybody buying these books?

Is there any pushback from Amazon when trying to add this many products at once?

Do you expect to make money?

I would be interested in hearing about how GPT-2 works. It seems better than the typical markov chain algo used by spammers.

ericneil · on Jan 20, 2020

I tried to autogenerate the titles optimizing for controversial topics, now it is a mix of autogenerated and manual ones.

The books are enrolled in the "Kindle Unlimited" program, where you get paid per page view and the user only pays a flatrate. There are some views but nothing major.

No pushback from Amazon yet - but I am well aware that that might happen. But it is all unique content and I published them in the "Puns & Wordplay" categories, stating the AI nature in the description. So it might be ok.

I don't expect to make money on this.

nikalras1 · on Jan 21, 2020

Very funny. Can you please do statistics and share with us? Number of clicks, conversations etc

Dicey84 · on Jan 20, 2020

Should the AI get any co-author credit?

or does this fall under the Ghostwriting service?

iRomain · on Jan 22, 2020

I dare you to write “1000 reasons why @ericneil is evil” ;-)

splittydev · on Jan 20, 2020

This is hilarious. Good job

asdfv09s9d80fu9 · on Jan 19, 2020

Jesus, what the ???

- 1000 Reasons why President Trump is right

- 1000 Reasons why Germans marry Thai women

- 1000 Reasons why Climate change is not manmade

You're not generating this by AI, since you're clearly attempting to push your shitty agenda.

ericneil · on Jan 20, 2020

You take it a bit too serious ;-)

AwesomeFaic · on Jan 20, 2020

I'd like to know what the 'agenda' behind the second is