AI Books Are Flooding Amazon — 63% of Religious Titles Flagged as AI, While Human Authors Face a Revenue…

‘They’re likely to get squeezed’: AI slop books are flooding online marketplaces—and it’s coming at the expense of paychecks for human authors

A recent study found thousands of self-published books on Amazon that were at least 50% generated by AI.

AI Books Are Flooding Amazon — 63% of Religious Titles Flagged as AI, While Human Authors Face a Revenue…

Research finds AI-generated books are gaining ground on Amazon as revenue per selling book falls, raising pressure on human authors.

AI Slop Books Are Flooding Amazon and Draining Human Authors' Pay

A new study tracked 14,419 self-published Amazon books from 2023 to 2026 and found the catalog grew 38.3 times over while quarterly revenue grew only 8.9 times. AI-heavy titles now make up a fifth of the catalog but earn barely a tenth of the sales, and human authors are seeing revenue drop across most genres anyway.