~77% of all new "Success" self-help books on Amazon are likely written by AI, with 1 author, Noah Felix Bennett, publishing a stunning 74 books in mid-2025 alone, at a rate of >1 per day. Richard Trillion Mantey, who has published hundreds of books, was assessed to have used AI for every single book

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"Ironically, one of the 844 books in this dataset is called 'How to Write for Humans in an AI World: Cutting Through Digital Noise and Reaching Real People'. In it, the author laments the proliferation of AI-written content: 'The words we see online, in our inboxes, even in news articles, often feel like they were written by no one in particular,' he writes. 'They’re grammatically perfect and emotionally empty. They’re fluent, but soulless. The irony is that we’ve never written more than we d...