Fake authors are swindling people with shady AI travel guides
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Your number one travel tip? Stay away from the deepfake authors flooding the Amazon Kindle Store and other platforms with their shoddy travel books.
You could end up writing one of the many bad reviews lamenting your money lost. Even worse, you could find yourself in a vacation nightmare.
These sloppy, fact-poor guides can be hard to spot from the outside, with slick summaries, fake reviews, and promotion on social media. And the flood of these deepfake travel manuals on the top e-book sites shows that these fake authors are finding plenty of victims.
Here's what could go wrong, plus how to make your vacation as deepfake-free as possible.
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Story originally published June 20, 2024.
See print version here at Ampyx News (formerly called Ampere News).
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