A book on Diana Carney writes using the AI ​​sows confusion

A biography of the new first lady of Canada, Diana Carney, sows confusion with Canadian Internet users. According to some, the book, on sale on Amazon, is proof that the federal election has been rigged. In truth, it is a poor quality written work using artificial intelligence (AI).

Question: How is it possible that the “First Lady of Canada” can be defined in this way on the cover of its published biography … April 3? So three weeks before the elections? wondered a user of the social network X, Sunday evening.

How did she know that she would be the First Lady of Canada at the beginning of April? wrote another on Saturday.

Both shared a screenshot of an English language book on sale on Amazon entitled Diana Carney Biographie : economist at First Lady of Canada – A story of love, leadership and world impact (Les Carney, a family of influence, first volume).

The two Internet users emphasize the date of publication indicated on the site: April 3, 2025, just over a week after the electoral campaign was triggered.

Some have pointed out to them that, although the outcome of the election has not yet been known when the book was published, Mark Carney was already Prime Minister, having been elected in early March of the Liberal Party of Canada, which formed the government in Ottawa.

Ms. Carney was therefore indeed First Lady.

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Do you know how long it takes, writing a book? Typically, about seven to nine monthsreplied one of the authors of the publications in question.

The idea seems to be that, since it is impossible to have published a book so quickly, everything had been set up for months in advance, and therefore that the election was faked.

However, the book in question has most likely been written using AI. Barely forty pages, it reads in a few minutes.

The writing style is typical of what Chatgpt produce and other very popular conversational robots. Three of the chapters repeat the same information about Ms. Carney’s journey to the University of Oxford, England.

As we consulted the book page on Monday afternoon, he was second in the list of most popular biographical books in Canada.

The author of the book, a certain Victor C. Hopkins, has also published no less than fifteen books on Amazon in recent weeks, including biographies of American politicians and even a volume in German on the relationship between French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte.

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All of these books were published independently using Kindle Direct Publishing, an Amazon service that allows everyone to sell books in paper and digital versions, without going through a publishing house.

This service is commonly used by people who seek to generate income by publishing books of poor quality written using AI, with results that often plunge Amazon into embarrassment.

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Last month, CBC reported that a book generated using the AI ​​for sale on Amazon contained false dangerous information (new window) About edible mushrooms that can be picked in Saskatchewan.

Last year, the Times of London had found a variety of tourist guides generated using AI (new window) and truffled with errors for sale on Amazon. One of them, wanting a tourist guide to New Zealand, contained a photo of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.

During a search with the name Carney In the Amazon Canada books section on Monday afternoon, the first result was Value(s)an economic book written by Mark Carney and published in 2021. The other results were a handful of books written using the AI.

We noticed the same for the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Hairyvre. The first two books are real works written by real authors, but the search results page is overwhelmed with written books using AI.

Amazon assures that the authors who use Kindle Direct Publishing must indicate if they use AI to write their books.

We have policies that determine which books can be sold on Amazon, and we have proactive and reactive methods that help us detect content that contravenes them, whether they are generated using AI or notwrote Tim Gillman, spokesperson for Amazon.

He added that Amazon constantly refines his methods to deal with the explosion in popularity of AI tools.

Following our email, Amazon withdrew all the books in question, but the company did not delete the other works of the authors.