It may be a real-life case of AI coming to take our jobs—if not our identities. Journalist, author, and professor Jane Friedman reported on Monday that Amazon has refused her request to remove books falsely attributed to her from its website, in part because she did not hold a trademark to her own name.

As an author who specializes in helping other writers get published, Friedman has amassed a solid following for a number of books, including “The Business of Being a Writer,” “What Editors Do,” and “Publishing 101.” As an author who focuses on helping other writers get published, she recently noticed a number of new titles on similar topics: “Your Guide to Writing a Bestseller eBook on Amazon,” “Publishing Power: Navigating Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing,” and “Promote to Prosper: Strategies to Skyrocket Your eBook Sales on Amazon.”

These titles, attributed to what appeared to be another “Jane Friedman,” were for sale on Amazon. Curious, she clicked the author’s name, and the books appeared alongside her books—the same related results shown when viewing Friedman’s “The Business of Being a Writer.”

“As of today, there are about half a dozen books being sold on Amazon, with my name on them, that I did not write or publish,” Friedman said. “Some huckster generated them using AI.”

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