General Discussion

But the theft being of the general IP/copyrighted characters. Full length, AI generated novels, piggybacking off of a real series, presented as audiobooks.

The other day I searched [author name] [character name] of an old but prolific detective series because I wanted to see if there were any people reviewing or recommending these books these days. What I got as results were dozens of multi-hour videos with bad AI art thumbnails and unfamiliar titles (I have a full set of these real books, and have read them all, and the author is dead so I cannot have missed real new ones). The titles sort of fit the pattern of the real ones but all seemed just a little off; if I was only vaguely familiar with the series/author I might have thought they were real titles.

I did not click on or listen to any of them, so yes I am only assuming that they are AI generated based off of the obviously AI thumbnail and bogus names. But also nobody would put in so many hours of real human labor for something which is clearly a copyright violation, and thereby at risk for being taken down... It would have to be an easy come easy go attitude which points to AI slop.