Read the whole story: A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks – The New York Times (archive.org)

I also bought some international cookbooks off of Amazon that turned out to be content mill generated. Most of the recipes were found online, word for word – sometimes changing only the measurements between Metric and English. The dramatic photos of the dishes were sourced to stock photo libraries – in China. These books were the work of a knock off publishing business that scours the web, steals content, and then repackages the content with stock photos and light editing.

This is also true for news content – I have now documented content mills with fake author profiles, generating realistic looking news articles, which are now distributed by Microsoft Start, Yahoo News, Google News and have been picked up by local news (TV and newspaper) web sites. Yet the stories are written by non-existent authors, whose profiles claim they have been published widely – yet their name appears only on the content mill generated articles.