The Rise of Parasite Authors The proliferation of AI generated content has brought benefits to various industries, but in publishing, it's unleashing a plague of "parasite authors" who hijack established writers' fan bases and earn illicit revenue.
These ghostwriters use machine learning algorithms to produce low quality books that mimic the style and subject matter of popular authors, often with convincing fake covers and blurbs.
The phenomenon is symptomatic of a larger issue: the exploitation of intellectual property in the digital age.