Google Books began indexing AI-generated books containing phrases like 'as of my last knowledge update' which could contaminate its Ngram language tracking tool used by academics for research.
Google Books, which indexes published material and serves as an essential resource for academics, has begun including low-quality AI-generated books in its database. 404Media discovered this by searching Google Books for the phrase 'as of my last knowledge update,' a common phrase used by chatbots like ChatGPT. Among the search results were books that appeared to be written by AI, including Tristin McIver's 'Bears, Bulls, and Wolves: Stock Trading for the Twenty-Year-Old,' which seemed to have trawled Wikipedia for information about financial events and contained the telltale AI phrase. Other AI-generated books on topics like Twitter contained outdated information from 2021, when some AI models last received training data. The concern is that Google Books provides most of the data for Google's Ngram viewer, a research tool that tracks language changes over time by analyzing written works dating back to the 1500s. While Google stated that recent works on Google Books do not currently appear in Ngram results, these AI-generated books could potentially be included in future data updates, which would affect the tool's accuracy for linguistic research.
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