I suppose the idea is that it’s possible that someone has written several books in the past, and wants to sell them on Amazon now.

They even admit this rule is trash.

The rule change will “probably not” be a “gamechanger for managing the influx of AI-written content on Amazon’s platform,”

A book in one language yes, but don't forget translations. Books of famous writers are sometimes released in multiple languages on the same day.

They could have written them and are just getting around to publishing them on Amazon if it is a one time thing.

Do they short stories as titles? Stephen King could have cranked out that many if he didn't care about quality control back in his cocaine days.

3 books a day? Yea, that's still AI.

It seems plausible that an author might have a catalogue of more than 3 books and might choose to publish them on Amazon all at the same time. Still, that could probably be alleviated by having the throttling kick in after some initial threshold is reached, say 12 total.

Many authors write parallel works, so it is not impossible to in fact have more than one work ready for publishing at the same time. It even makes more sense if we consider that different books will take different amounts of time to proofread, review, etc.

What I do like is, because of this, publishing as it exists can be shooting itself on the foot.

If it becomes accepted that an independent author requires real time to write a book, then the same is true for a publisher backed one. So, if an author can churn out more than one work trough that channel than the indie one, that may imply the publisher is in fact using shadow writers to put more books out than humanly feasable.

There are incredibly talented and focused author that will put out a lot of work in a short time window but that is not the rule for the average person.

I give up there sooo much garbage on there I have no way to get people to find my novel and word of mouth isn't enough. I am currently looking for an agent for my next book.

Now people will rely on social cred. Indie authors would have to rely on social media and blogging to come accross as attractive enough for their written works to be interesting. Same with any other indie-related fields, really.

Not if they are regulated to put an "In Full or in Part AI Generated" label on it.

I don't see a problem with someone publishing a backlog of multiple books at once. 3 per day seems pretty reasonable. Maybe even something like 3 per day and at most 10 per month might work.

On the other hand though, say you've been writing a web novel that could be sliced up into 3 separate books or you just have 3 books that's only now getting released. You could release them over time or you could choose to have all 3 go up at once. Not to mention as a first act of defense, it's a reasonable action to make and is easily adjustable later on.

There's probably other reasons why someone would release more than one book at once that's completely understandable, especially when considering what technically counts as a "book" such as translations or a company publishing titles of multiple authors under one name,

Chuck Tingle was pumping out multiple a month before language models were a thing.

What's this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.

AI detection tools don't work, and humans aren't much better, unless they're subject experts. How do we stop AI books?

I 110% guarantee that this issue was brought to the attention of several people with the ability to rapidly implement a fix, but the subject was dropped when cost to develop was mentioned. Amazon is the glass and steel incarnation of human malice.

Not defending Amazon, but... despite allowing unlimited pen names, they all have to be under the same account. Multiple publishing accounts can get you banned, and good luck explaining why multiple accounts have the same financial information when you go to withdraw your $5.

Chuck Tingle may have to slow down a bit but that’s ok, he deserves evenings off

Brandon Sanderson comes to mind.

Chuck tingle, stephen king, good thing Asimov died or we'd have chaos on our hands

I'm not a writer, but ai is a fantastic tool to brainstorm ideas. Just never ever trust it.

Anyone got ideas on how we can limit AI effectively?

Teach your children to value artists and content creators

Badly.