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‘Dangerous nonsense’: AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon

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67% Informative

Amazon 's marketplace has been deluged with AI-produced works that are easy and cheap to publish.

Books marketed at people seeking techniques to manage their ADHD include unhelpful or dangerous misinformation.

Experts said online marketplaces are a “wild west” owing to the lack of regulation.

Amazon has content guidelines governing which books can be listed for sale.

Amazon says it has 'proactive and reactive methods that help us detect content that violates our guidelines, whether AI -generated or not.

Wordsworth: “If he can be taken in by this type of book, anyone could be and so well-meaning and desperate people have their heads filled with dangerous nonsense.

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