My book, “Caring for a Husband with Dementia: The Ultimate Survival Guide,” has been plagiarized at least twice on Amazon. The top book in the photo is my book, the bottom two are Artificial Intelligence Hybrids or what I call AI Hybrids for short. Let me provide you with a definition that I made up.

AI/Cloning Hybrid Plagiarism is a combination of cloning or direct plagiarism plus artificial intelligence, AI-generated, text.

An AI Hybrid Book is a book that consists of artificial intelligence, AI-generated, text plus cloned or direct text from the original human author. The direct copied work has been used without authorization from or acknowledgement to the originator of the human-generated text (the author). AI is also not given credit and the book’s credit goes to a completely different author. Sometimes these are fictitious names.

The version of MY book that was plagiarized was the 2015 ebook version. “Caring for a Husband with Dementia” has since been revised (2021) and is available in both ebook and paperback.

There are MANY AI Hybrids on Amazon and Goodreads. Perhaps they are everywhere online. This is a problem that I want all consumers and authors to be aware of. The photo below shows a combination of my books that were plagiarized and others that I highly suspect are also AI Hybrids.

HOW TO SPOT AN AI HYBRID PLAGIARIZED BOOK and FRAUDULENT “AUTHOR” ON AMAZON

*The book overview summary description is most likely written by AI. (You can run it through an AI checker to get an idea if it was or not.)

*The book cover image may appear irrelevant to the topic. 

*The title is on the cover but there is a lengthy subtitle in the book listing that is NOT on the book cover.

*There is no back cover copy. 

*The author’s name includes a middle initial – and no credentials. 

*No information on the author. 

*No Amazon Author profile page. 

*No search results on the author’s name. 

*No sample to read other than the copyright info. (If there is a sample, it is probably poorly formatted.)

*Publisher = “Independently published” (usually 2023, after ChatGPT and Generative AI took off)

*It likely has a FAKE ISBN # (ex. 979-8861564083)

*No ebook for Kindle available. Just paperback. 

*No reviews. 

If you think this may have happened to you, please let me know. I have a Facebook page where you can follow along. Https://www.facebook.com/mybookwasplagiarised.

Comments or questions? Please contact me.

Angela G. Gentile, MSW, RSW