“Astonishingly prolific”

I’ve been watching the NON-war between human creators and the Altman demons. As an author who deals with a publisher, I have a literal vested interest in the matter.

This article includes one dramatic illustration of the enemy’s overwhelming power. The article describes “astonishingly productive” fake historians generated by Amazon’s demonic machine.

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No living American historian is as prolific as Blake Whiting. In one week alone last fall, he published 13 books on a host of complex archaeological and historical subjects, ranging from the collapse of Near Eastern civilizations in 1177 BCE to the recent discovery of a huge Silk Road–era city in Central Asia. Amazon sells his hardbacks for $28.99, the paperbacks for $20.99, and the Kindle versions for a bargain $7.99.

The company claims to limit titles created by one author to 10 per week.

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No more than 10 books per week. We’re supposed to think Amazon is careful????

Real books written by real humans take at least one year of full-time equivalent for text research, writing, checking and copyediting. For physical research like archeology, a book takes much longer.

The cited article misses one big point: Before 1996 the copyright law actively protected real creators and their publishers from forgers, human or mechanical.

Before Disney bought the law, a copyright had to be registered or it didn’t exist. Copyrights were like car licenses or house deeds, kept in official filing systems and granted after a certain amount of inspection. A stolen book could be compared against your registration in the same way that cops can check a hot car or county clerks can check a squatter.

Such comparisons didn’t need to happen very often because registration deters thieves.

After Disney bought the law in 1996, the law no longer actively protects small authors and publishers from giant mafias like Amazon and Anthropic. Copyright is now considered to be automatic as soon as the words are written on paper or silicon, so THERE’S NO RECORD TO CHECK AGAINST, thus no deterrent.

Disney and other mafias simply take what they want. Class action suits can induce payments, but no smaller publisher can afford to keep up a constant barrage of class-action suits.