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Jane Friedman<ref name="janefriedman/books">{{cite web |title=Books by Jane Friedman |url=https://janefriedman.com/books/ |website=Jane Friedman .com |access-date=9 August 2023}}</ref> discovered a 6 listings of books fraudulently using her name, on [[Amazon]] and [[Goodreads]]. Amazon and Goodreads resisted removing the fraudulent titles until the author's complaints went viral on social media, in a blog post titled "I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires)."<ref name="janefriedman/rather-my-books-pirated">{{cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Jane |title=I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) |url=<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20230807174329/https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/ -->https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/ |website=Jane Friedman |access-date=9 August 2023 |date=7 August 2023}}</ref><ref name="arstechnica/2023/08/ai-generated-counterfeit-books-amazon">{{cite news |last1=Edwards |first1=Benj |title=Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/author-discovers-ai-generated-counterfeit-books-written-in-her-name-on-amazon/ |access-date=9 August 2023 |work=Ars Technica |date=8 August 2023 |language=en-us}}<!-- https://www.thedailybeast.com/author-jane-friedman-finds-ai-fakes-being-sold-under-her-name-on-amazon https://gizmodo.com/amazon-jane-friedman-ai-generated-books-removed-1850718989 https://www.thestreet.com/technology/author-levels-troubling-new-accusation-at-amazons-publishing-practices https://decrypt.co/151674/amazon-refuses-authors-request-to-remove-fake-books-written-with-ai/ --></ref><ref name="vice/v7b774">{{cite web |last1=Roscoe |first1=Jules |title=AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b774/ai-generated-books-of-nonsense-are-all-over-amazons-bestseller-lists |website=Vice |access-date=9 August 2023 |language=en |date=28 June 2023}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost/amazon-goodreads">{{cite news |last1=O'Donovan |first1=Caroline |title=Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/01/amazon-goodreads-elizabeth-gilbert/ |access-date=9 August 2023 |work=Washington Post |date=2 July 2023}}</ref>