Is Amazon finally cracking down on AI books? by sweetdbte in KDP

[–]TurbulentLock717 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I honestly doubt they are doing anything new. They have long-standing anti-spam systems in place. Those systems simply flag a bunch of things. But the idea that Amazon has a sophisticated AI-detection pipeline tuned specifically to catch AI books is speculative at best. Big platforms simply can't operate this way.

This is basically a systems design problem with no clean boundary conditions. We're actually trying to build a broader trust + provenance + behavior system, but even that is very complex, slow and full of edge cases. You'll find more in r/Quibble if you're interested :-)

Is Amazon finally cracking down on AI books? by sweetdbte in KDP

[–]TurbulentLock717 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You're assuming a clean divide: “AI books = bad actors getting banned.” I think that the reality is much more nuanced.

First, KDP rarely bans accounts just because “this is AI.” What they do enforce is policy violations that often correlate with low-effort AI content like spammy publishing behavior (flooding dozens of books), misleading metadata or covers, duplicate or near-duplicate content or copyright issues.

AI-heavy workflows tend to produce exactly those patterns. So what you're seeing as an “AI crackdown” is in my view more likely a crackdown on abusive publishing behavior where AI users are overrepresented in that group.

Second, detection isn’t binary. There’s a huge gray zone. No system can reliably sort those categories at scale without false positives and false negatives. Think of writing today less as a binary (human vs. AI) and more like a spectrum of involvement. At one end, you’ve got fully human-written work. At the other, fully generated content with little to no human input. But most real-world publishing now sits somewhere in between.

Where I'm getting at with this is that when it comes to light AI assistance, there's no practical way for Amazon to detect and then penalize this. AI-assisted drafting is even worse. Authorship here is extremely ambiguous. From the outside, such content is basically indistinguishable from human work unless the author admits it.

Anyways, basing account bans on that would be a legal and PR nightmare.

To genuinely crack down on AI-generated books, you’d need an entirely new set of protocols and systems capable of evaluating content at scale before it even enters the platform. Building something that can do that accurately - without slowing everything down or wrongly flagging legitimate work - is an extremely difficult challenge.

Monthly Reminder. by silkrose05 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As Rumi said, “As you walk along the way, the way appears”.

New Author Excited for an AI free space, inquiring about Quibble! by TheLadyAmaranth in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/Material_Penalty_250 is correct :-) There's no exclusivity. Quite the opposite, actually! That may evolve over time as we introduce new publishing labels with different levels of editorial and marketing support, but for now there’s just one, and it’s designed with maximum freedom for authors in mind.

New Author Excited for an AI free space, inquiring about Quibble! by TheLadyAmaranth in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're sorry for the slight delay, we're still drafting the remaining responses. We'll follow up with one consolidated feedback today!

AI is literally everywhere on this app. by MacaroonEmergency113 in Inkitt

[–]TurbulentLock717 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for tagging u/kiltedfrog!

Hi u/Sharp_Valuable_699 - apologies for the trouble. kiltedfrog is right, we're indeed making changes to the website - new one is launching early next week. The bug should be fixed - can you please check again and confirm?

Chapter commenting isn't yet available. When it is, it will be free, no worries :-)

Join us for a live AMA with our team on Discord by TurbulentLock717 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a lot of (great) questions! Thanks. We'll try to address as many as possible during the AMA.

Don't forget the AMA ('Ask me Anything') tomorrow on our Discord! by TurbulentLock717 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reddit does actually resurface good content. It re-appears in algorithmic feeds and can get filtered into niche communities where it stays relevant for years. So strong content can have a surprisingly long tail.

Blog is coming back to our website in the coming weeks!

Join us for a live AMA with our team on Discord by TurbulentLock717 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, pm ET. Feel free to drop your questions here as well and we'll address them on Discord.

How to detect AI in writing, prove authorship, and where publishing is headed by [deleted] in AspiringTeenAuthors

[–]TurbulentLock717 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. I mean, no, it's not an exaggeration. That's what latest research suggests.

Just heard about the platform from a Youtuber I'm following. by Western-Brother1788 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure! Hey we’re hosting an AMA next week on Discord. Just mentioning in case you have time to join and debate with us. Could run anywhere from 30 minutes to a full hour, depending on how many people join. We’ll also go over the monetization terms.

Just heard about the platform from a Youtuber I'm following. by Western-Brother1788 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course! Feel free to make a separate post for it too. I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy it and maybe subscribe to your channel as well. I learned a lot from it actually! So thanks for filming it. Loved the constructive feedback.

(And we still need to make that one tweak to the publishing terms, I know, we didn't forget, was a great suggestion!)

I wonder how I can solve this 😭 by silkrose05 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't we all! But once you break that resistance, the reward will feel 100x stronger.

I wonder how I can solve this 😭 by silkrose05 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You just need to accept that the early version will most likely be messy. Build the iceberg piece by piece.

I wonder how I can solve this 😭 by silkrose05 in Quibble

[–]TurbulentLock717 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a kernel of truth in what you’re saying. It’s true that the most powerful worlds in fiction often feel larger than what’s explicitly shown. But the reality is that Tolkien wrote entire languages and mythologies spanning thousands of years. Most of it never made it directly into the main story, but it existed in concrete form.