Meet Billy Coull, A Scammer Who Sells "AI Written" Trash Books on Amazon

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The 16 books on Coull’s Amazon author page were all published in the summer of 2023 --- some of them on the very same day.

https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=Billy+Coull
The synopsis for each is AI-generated, according to GPTZero analysis, and so is the text between the covers, as one irate reviewer has complained.

Coull couldn’t even be bothered to pen his own author bio, which declares him a “rising star in the literary world” who “weaves spellbinding tales that delve into the mysterious realms of fictional thrillers and gripping conspiracies.”

While some of the stories are generic puzzle-driven plots in the vein of The DaVinci Code, others — like Selling Innocence — are geared toward paranoid right-wing politics.

Operation Inoculation, for example, promises a “conspiratorial journey into vaccination truth” related to the so-called “deep state,” in which ” the carefully constructed facade of the vaccination campaign begins to crumble.”

All in all, then, it looks as if Coull leaves a long trail of fishy schemes dating back many years — but has lately used chatbots and AI image generators to expand the scope and ambition of his flimsy ventures.

While it’s not clear how many Amazon shoppers have fallen for the bogus novels, the Wonka affair demonstrated what can happen when a corner-cutting huckster gets carried away with his AI-enhanced pitch.

This time, it just meant an inconvenience and some confused kids, and if Coull compensates the families, he will probably avoid more serious repercussions.

The next person to sell a purely AI fantasy for top dollar? They could make Fyre Festival look like a well-planned weekend in the Bahamas.

https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...coull-ai-vaccine-conspiracy-books-1234976876/
 
How is publishing ai written content scam?
That's just good blackhat method working for someone.
Look around ai content is everywhere.
 
How is publishing ai written content scam?
That's just good blackhat method working for someone.
Look around ai content is everywhere.

Publishing AI written novels isn't the scam, it's the other stuff he does.

For one, he was behind that willy wonka debacle a few weeks ago. Read his bio on the rolling stone site for a list of his scams.
 
Most of his books are mysteriously "out of print" - here's one review:

"The Biohazard Protocol" - 80 pages of ChatGPT generated garbage. I had a blast!
Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2024

This was blatantly obviously cranked out by ChatGPT and probably never even reviewed by the “author” given that several chapters have repeated titles.

ChatGPT speeds through entire book-length plots in a single paragraph, and then the ending drags on for 14 chapters because the computer algorithm that wrote this tidied up the entire plot by the end of chapter 6.

The plot summary on the back of the book only summarizes the epilogue because it was written with a version of ChatGPT that couldn’t remember what happened in the actual story.

A complete waste of time and money, but an absolutely hysterical read with the right crowd.
We had a blast mocking it! Thanks Billy, and good luck on the Wonka lawsuit!


https://www.amazon.ca/Biohazard-Protocol-Billy-Coull/dp/B0CDFPR9DC/
 
Why does this thread look like a hit piece? Did he do anything to you?

Also, do you know how many people on here are selling fully AI-generated books on Amazon?

Btw. these are novels. Books like 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, etc. are also dystopian, conspiratorial, and so on.
 
Why does this thread look like a hit piece? Did he do anything to you?

Also, do you know how many people on here are selling fully AI-generated books on Amazon?

Btw. these are novels. Books like 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, etc. are also dystopian, conspiratorial, and so on.
Nah , just exposing phony. Nothing wrong with using AI etc. but first of all read the good damm thing yourself before publishing.
This guy was behind Willy Wonka Experience scam where children was getting one piece of chocolate - FOR 50 Euros per ticket. If you can treat children like that, that makes you the lowest human trash. Good thing that this is happening in Scotland, so it won't be long until his scull is crushed a bit.

 
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